Isn't Borg one of the Jesus Seminar folks who deny the historicity of
virtually all of the words ascribed to Jesus?
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> From: J Burg [mailto:hoss_radbourne@hotmail.com]
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> I am really puzzled here. What possible reason could there be
> for thinking
> that someone writing 2500 years ago (more or less) would be including
> "secret" messages to us in the 20th century about scientific matters?
>
> The scholar Marcus Borg asserts that much of scripture is "history
> metamorphized" and that by taking it literally we are simply
> "historicizing
> metaphors." That makes sense to me.
>
> Hoss
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