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A 4 page paper. The stimuli for this paper are statements made by John Meier who said, among other things, that the real Jesus was "unknown and unknowable." The writer discusses the difficulties with defining the historical Jesus and comments on whether or not the epistemic gap between the Jesus of History and the Jesus of Faith can ever be bridged. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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is more than enough secular evidence that Jesus was born, lived, preached, ministered and was crucified. Yet, it is this topic of the historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith
that has been debated for centuries. This controversy and debate continues only because the human mind is finite and there are many, many things our human minds are simply unable
to understand. Even the Jews and Muslims believe that Jesus was real, they say, however, that He was a prophet only. Thats true, He was a prophet but He was
also Divine. Many authors, when discussing the historical Jesus, quote Meiers book, "A Marginal Jew," who said that we must not confuse the historical Jesus with the real Jesus. For
example, Merrigan and Haers (2000) in their book entitled "The Myriad Christ: Plurality and the Quest for Unity Contemporary Christology" and Martin (1999) in his book entitled "The Elusive Messiah:
A philosophic Overview of the Quest for the Historical Jesus." Meier explained, the real Jesus "means either Jesus in his total reality, or a reasonably complete biographical portrait of Jesus
(Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). Meier stated that "the historical Jesus is not the real Jesus . . . but only a fragmentary hypothetical reconstruction of him by modern
means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain the scientific evidence for an accurate discourse
on the historical Jesus. He stated that the "real Jesus [is] unknown and unknowable and the historical evidence is "not available and never will be" (cited by Martin, 1999, from
Maier, vol. 1, p. 22). Other authors have discussed the historical and the Divine Jesus. Geisler (1999), for instance cites Martin Kahler whose writings from the late 1800s and
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