Subject:      Jesus Seminar                        (Jesus Seminar Home Page)
From:         qbaal_99@yahoo.com
Date:         1997/11/26
Message-ID:   <880556759.32730@dejanews.com>
Newsgroups:   alt.christnet
 
 

> Maybe in two thousand years we can have a Jesus Seminar Seminar and tell
> the Jesus Seminar people what they really meant by those colored marbles.

Precisely! (B.V.)

To this QBaal  replies:

Look at this way, The Jesus Seminar folk do have the
marbles, top and bottom.  This means they have the wherewithal in courage
and intellect to deal with the crisis in Christology at hand.  Also the
"marbles" are symbolic of a non-elitist, non-dictatorial methodology to
arrive at the truth of New Testament matters.  With a dab of
humility thrown in which, I understand from Sunday School days, is good
medicine for the soul.  Also the marble method of reaching a consensus,
while not any guarantee of "the final truth" is grounded ancient Greek
voting methods(casting sherds) whence comes a lot inspiration for our
democratic institutions in North America/Europe.

Now it would be nice if God would launch a satellite to put a huge
solar panel powered neon sign of giant proportions into orbit and give
us the latest update on his mind re abortion, Christology, 2nd coming,
contraception etc.  Save a lot of work and agument and maybe bombing
of abortion clinics and shooting of Docs involved.  I've made this
suggestion to the Ultimate One but he doesn't seem to respond.   So,
meantime, it's back to the marbles/beads.

By the way,  the Jesus Seminar folk refer to the "marbles" as colored
beads.

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