Greg Crawford wrote:
I'm not sure you can ask that without going back to the discussion on how we view the bible, can you? I certainly don't believe that all the red letter bits in a red letter bible were spoken by Jesus, so that would mean my approach to (and answer to) your question would be quite different to someone who *did* believe those red letter bits were Jesus' actual words.
What criteria would you use to determine the relative authenticity of teaching attributed to Jesus?
I don't. I just know that there are things in there that *can't* have been said by Jesus if he was perfect (ie. inerrant), so I reject the joint assumption that he was perfect and the bible is inerrant. But I don't presume to judge what is and isn't his words. And I treat with caution the decisions of those who do.
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