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The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition? QUOTES

The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition? QUOTES

1 " The principle of analogy is so simple, so natural, that everyone uses it in daily life. Imagine someone sitting down in front of the television after a long day at work. The first image he sees is that of a giant reptile squashing tall buildings. Is one's first hunch, "Oh! The news channel!"? Probably not. More likely one surmises the TV set had been left on the science fiction channel. Why? Because one's world of contemporary experience does not include newscasts of giant dinosaurs wreaking havoc in modern cities, but one has seen monster movies in which such disasters are quite typical. Which analogy does the TV screen image fit? "

― Robert M. Price , The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?

2 " Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship. "

― Robert M. Price , The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?

3 " And then we find ourselves facing a prospect Brown did not consider. If the youth of Jesus was filled in fictively only once the sonship was pushed back to physical conception and birth, mustn't the stories of the ministry have been similarly fabricated only once the sonship had been pushed back from the resurrection to the baptism? This was exactly the suggestion of Paul Couchoud, to which we shall return. "

― Robert M. Price , The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?

4 " In some ways, the sources available to the critic are wider and fuller than those available to the believer, the dogmatician, the apologist, for the former
risks looking into literary sources that the New Testament evangelists may have used. Since this implies the fictive character of at least some gospel elements, believers will not go venturing down those particular paths. "

― Robert M. Price , The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?

5 " I found myself listening to Walter Bjork's fascinating radio program Bible Questionnaire (WFME, Orange, N.J.), and a caller asked where in the Bible one would find the statement "Neither borrower nor lender be." The poor host flipped like mad through his concordance without success. Naturally, since the quote is not from the Bible at all, but from Shakespeare's Hamlet! But it sounded biblical, so caller and host alike attributed it to scripture. Can it have been much more difficult to naively attribute wise sayings to Jesus? "

― Robert M. Price , The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?