{"id":14290,"date":"2020-09-12T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=14290"},"modified":"2020-09-13T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T02:21:10","slug":"dr-gregory-boyd-the-case-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/dr-gregory-boyd-the-case-for-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gregory Boyd on What the Gospels Get Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who is Dr. Gregory Boyd? What are his views on Christianity, the evidence of Jesus, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-jesus-seminar\/\">the Jesus Seminar<\/a>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Gregory Boyd was a scholar and a Christian, who believed that the ideas put forth by the Jesus Seminar were incorrect. Boyd believed that the gospels are a trustworthy source of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to find out more about Dr. Gregory Boyd&#8217;s views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dr. Gregory Boyd and the Jesus of the Gospels<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the \u201990s, a small group of New Testament scholars calling themselves the Jesus Seminar rose to prominence. These scholars, a tiny minority of New Testament experts, received a wealth of media coverage due to their idiosyncratic methods and radically new accounts of the Bible. For example, the group voted on the authenticity of each of Jesus\u2019s sayings with colored beads; later, they published a book called <em>The Five Gospels<\/em> (the canonical four plus the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-lost-gospel-of-thomas\/\">Gospel of Thomas<\/a>), which featured color-coded text reflecting their votes. <strong>82% of the book was rendered in black, the color for words Jesus never said at all<\/strong>; only 2% of the book was in red, the color for words Jesus definitely said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the attention paid to the Jesus Seminar in the media and their assertions of Jesus\u2019s \u201cmateriality\u201d (that is, <strong>his mortality rather than his deity<\/strong>), Strobel feels it\u2019s vital to consider, and, hopefully, refute, the Jesus Seminar. To do so, he visits Dr. Gregory Boyd, a professor at Bethel College who received his graduate education in divinity at Yale and Princeton. Dr. Gregory Boyd is the author of a 416-page scholarly rebuttal to the Jesus Seminar entitled <em>Cynic Sage or Son of God? Recovering the Real Jesus in an Age of Revisionist Replies,<\/em> and, in addition to his scholarly work, he serves as a pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Jesus as One Among Many<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of the Jesus Seminar have sought to emphasize Jesus\u2019s \u201cnaturalism\u201d by placing his pronouncements and deeds in historical context\u2014by showing that rabbis and other Jewish figures were purported to have performed miracles as well. If other religious leaders of the time were perceived as having supernatural powers\u2014<strong>powers no one now believes in or takes seriously<\/strong>\u2014then it stands to reason Jesus\u2019s powers should be treated similarly: as myth.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,<strong> the parallels between Jesus and other \u201cwonder workers\u201d of the time don\u2019t go very far<\/strong>. Dr. Gregory Boyd notes three ways in which Jesus is unique:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No other religious leader was so closely associated with the supernatural.<\/li><li>No other religious leader performed miracles of Jesus\u2019s caliber (whereas rabbis were known to bring rain by praying for it, no rabbi was known to have cured permanent illnesses or raised the dead).<\/li><li>No other religious leader performed miracles on his own authority (whereas rabbis would pray for God to perform a certain miracle, Jesus assumed that authority himself as God himself).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Gregory <strong>Boyd\u2019s Personal Journey<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For liberal interpreters of the New Testament, like the scholars comprising the Jesus Seminar, Jesus\u2019s divinity becomes symbolic: The miracles and resurrection are there simply to inspire Christians to hew more closely to Jesus\u2019s teachings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dr. Gregory Boyd, whose belief is rooted in his years of scholarship and deep faith, this understanding of Jesus is utterly wrongheaded. <strong>Jesus\u2019s power to inspire and instruct is indistinguishable from the truth of his supernatural abilities<\/strong>; Paul himself says that if the resurrection didn\u2019t truly happen, then faith is useless. The fact that Paul\u2014and the gospel authors\u2014remain committed to their faith is a token of Jesus\u2019s divinity <em>in fact<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyd, too, is committed to Jesus because he is certain of the reality of Jesus\u2019s divinity. He acknowledges that some of the claims about Jesus, the supernatural ones in particular, are perhaps hard for a modern person to believe. But the evidence for those supernatural events\u2014the healing of the sick, the rising from the dead\u2014is incontrovertible. The Jesus Seminar\u2019s distinction between a \u201cJesus of History\u201d and \u201cJesus of Faith\u201d simply doesn\u2019t hold up under scrutiny; the Seminar\u2019s central pieces of evidence are thin and\/or contradictory,<strong> whereas the New Testament, coupled with secular sources like Josephus, paints a remarkably consistent picture of a divine Jesus<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dr. Gregory Boyd, it\u2019s a no-brainer for him to put his trust in the gospels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Dr. Gregory Boyd? What are his views on Christianity, the evidence of Jesus, and the Jesus Seminar? Dr. Gregory Boyd was a scholar and a Christian, who believed that the ideas put forth by the Jesus Seminar were incorrect. Boyd believed that the gospels are a trustworthy source of information. 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