The Annual Debunking of Jesus
By Eric Metaxas
When I was a kid, every Easter, I think it was NBC, played the miniseries “Jesus of Nazareth.” It had a bunch of well-known stars like Anthony Quinn, Anne Bancroft, and my favorite, Ernest Borgnine. Sure, there was some extra storytelling going on, but it was a moving account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. And for the most part it was sympathetic to the gospels and to Christian sensitivities.
Well, those days are pretty much gone.
Whether it’s the Discovery Channel’s airing a show on the supposed lost tomb of Jesus (they actually claim to have found His bones), or Newsweek (while it was still in print) featuring a cover photo of a cool-looking Jesus on the streets of New York City, or simply one of the major news networks interviewing a “modern” biblical scholar, Easter has become prime time for reconstructing the historical Jesus.
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Gone also are the days when the main argument about Jesus was whether He really was (and is) the Son of God, or just a great moral teacher. No doubt you’ll remember C. S. Lewis’s famous quote that Jesus was either who He said He was, or he was a madman (“on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg”) or a liar or something worse.
But today, the arguments focus more on the reliability of the gospels themselves. It’s hard to use Lewis’s excellent response when someone flings back in your face, “Well, we don’t really know what Jesus said after all”—or if Jesus even existed—because Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were all just propaganda pieces for a growing social and cultural movement.
But what if the Gospels are indeed what they claim to be? Eyewitness accounts of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth?
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What a relevant article! Last night (Easter Sunday 2019) the science channel featured an episode of Forbidden History that masqueraded as an critical review of the existence of Jesus. The consensus was maybe someone existed who caused the Romans to notice him and this man may have fit the description of the historical, but not the divine Jesus of Nazareth. And the latter is why I rarely watch programs controlled by left wing media especially if they claim to be religious documentary’s, because they are just propagandistic trash designed to harm our faith and Christianity in general. It’s way, way, WAY past time to rise up against this kind of garbage that is piped and dumped in our living rooms! Personally I would support a boycott of the companies that advertise on the Discovery network, PBS, Nat Geo, and many more that spend their dollars to support anti Christian beliefs etc.. In any case God Bless this site ~