Who Said That?

Who said that?

"The resurrection of Jesus cannot be an authenticating miracle on the basis of which a doubter can be secure in believing in Christ.  This is so not because as a mythical event--a dead person's returning to life in this world (and this is what is involved, since the risen one is perceived with the physical senses)--it is incredible, or because the resurrection cannot be established as an objective fact by ever so many witnesses, so that it could unhesitatingly believed in and faith would have a secure guarantee.  It is so because the resurrection itself is an object of faith; and one cannot secure one (faith in the saving meaning of the cross) by another (faith in the resurrection)."

Please leave your guess in the comments section below.  No google searches!

Update on Monday, December 18, 2006 at 03:28PM by Kim Riddlebarger

These words come from Rudolf Bultmann, ("The New Testament and Mythology" [1941]).  Although we have quickly forgotten Bultmann's legacy--the quest to demythologize the New Testament--he remains the patron saint of the Jesus Seminar and all anti-supernatural theological liberals since (i.e., Funk and Borg).

Comments

[Andrew Alvarez]

David Hume

[T.]

Joseph Campbell

["lee n. field"]

John Dominic Crossen

[Edwin Sineath]

R.C. Sproul

[Scott]

Robert Funk or Marcus Borg

[Nathan]

Ravi Zacharias

[turmeric]

Crossan - or Raymond Brown. Some folks don't recognize that some of this "new" heretical stuff is pretty old. This smacks of the "Jesus of history/Christ of faith" dichotomy, which I had the misfortune to encounter in the '70's.

[BrianR]

Sproul?????!!!! No way.

[Joel Nelson]

Benny Hinn?

[Wayne Rohde]

Spong?

[Rick B.]

Sounds like Borg. Could be Funk or Spong too.

[Ron]

Any one of the Jesus Seminar gang might have wrote or said it, but I'll guess Marcus Borg.

[DSY]

I'm gonna go with Benny.

DSY

[timinator]

Augstine