Who Said That?

Who Said That?

"We should give Jesus a demotion. It is no longer credible to think of Jesus as divine. Jesus' divinity goes together with the old theistic way of thinking about God.  The plot early Christians invented for a divine redeemer figure is as archaic as the mythology in which it is framed. A Jesus who drops down out of heaven, performs some magical act that frees human beings from the power of sin, rises from the dead, and returns to heaven is simply no longer credible. The notion that he will return at the end of time and sit in cosmic judgment is equally incredible. We must find a new plot for a more credible Jesus."

You know the drill!  No cheating (google searches or otherwise).  Post your answer in the comments section.

Update on Monday, September 11, 2006 at 02:31PM by Kim Riddlebarger

As some of you guessed, this blasphemous screed came from Robert W. Funk of the Jesus Seminar.  As Raymond Brown (the Roman Catholic New Testament scholar) once quipped, it is time for the Jesus Seminar members to give up their adolescent rebellion against the fundamentalism of their youth and begin to do some serious scholarship.

Comments

[Pastor Daniel Kok]

Sounds like the Pharisees to me: John 8:13-59

Thanks Kim! I'll be using this quote in my sermon for Sunday morning.

[vox reformata]

howabout Bart Erhman?

[Ron]

It smells like Spong!

[Gomarus]

Funk had his theology radically corrected in September 2005, when he died.

[mholst]

Clark Pinnock? He changes like the weather here in Colorado, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was behind it.
Matt

[Bruce Settergren]

Spong

[Phil]

I'm with Ron; it sure smells like Spong. John Dominic Crossan is right up there as a possibility, too.

[timinator]

Wow someone has no clue about the divine nature of Christ.
John Dominic Crossan Spong. It has to be one of those Jesus Seminar guys.

[Jeff Rolfe]

I'll say spong john square pants

[zrim]

...and for those *real* spongebob devotees, i say to jeff, "...good one..."

zrim

[Scott]

I'm going to guess a dead dude...Bultmann?

[timinator]

could it be Zrim