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That the Jesus Seminar was never subjective in their findings is evident from their methods in determining the authenticity of Scripture as explained below; that they had an anti-Christian agenda was evident from the start.

That the Jesus Seminar was never subjective in their findings is evident from their methods in determining the authenticity of Scripture as explained below; that they had an anti-Christian agenda was evident from the start.

Of the 74 scholars that remained at the end of the original book, 36 came from [[Vanderbilt University|Vanderbilt]], [[Harvard University|Harvard]], and [[Claremont Institute|Claremont]], universities which were criticized for having the most-liberal New Testament study programs.  In any case, most of the people who left the Seminar before the book went to print complained of the "radical fringes of New Testament scholarship" who were over-represented there, or of Funk's undermining of traditional Biblical values from the outset.<ref>http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t017.html</ref>

Of the 74 scholars that remained at the end of the original book, 36 came from [[Vanderbilt University|Vanderbilt]], [[Harvard University|Harvard]], and Claremont, universities which were criticized for having the most-liberal New Testament study programs.  In any case, most of the people who left the Seminar before the book went to print complained of the "radical fringes of New Testament scholarship" who were over-represented there, or of Funk's undermining of traditional Biblical values from the outset.<ref>http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t017.html</ref>

In his opening remarks at the first Seminar meeting, Funk openly stated that "we are having increasing difficulty these days in accepting the biblical account of the creation and of the apocalyptic conclusion in anything like a literal sense" and further that said difficulty "is connected with a second feature: we now know that narrative accounts of ourselves, our nation, the Western tradition, and the history of the world, are fictions".  Funk would go on further to state that "that the Bible, along with all our histories, is a fiction" and that the "fiction of Revelation keeps many common folk in bondage to ignorance and fear". <ref>https://www.westarinstitute.org/projects/jesus-seminar-opening-remarks/</ref>

In his opening remarks at the first Seminar meeting, Funk openly stated that "we are having increasing difficulty these days in accepting the biblical account of the creation and of the apocalyptic conclusion in anything like a literal sense" and further that said difficulty "is connected with a second feature: we now know that narrative accounts of ourselves, our nation, the Western tradition, and the history of the world, are fictions".  Funk would go on further to state that "that the Bible, along with all our histories, is a fiction" and that the "fiction of Revelation keeps many common folk in bondage to ignorance and fear". <ref>https://www.westarinstitute.org/projects/jesus-seminar-opening-remarks/</ref>

What is seen in Funk's paper the true mission of the Jesus Seminar, to present a fictionalized version of Jesus Christ to the masses, and to get them to believe that their "consensus" is the correct one.  According to author and Christian pastor Mark D. Roberts, the Seminar "wore a mask of scholarly objectivity and dispassionate scientific inquiry...based largely upon the image, one might be tempted to say 'the myth,' of the Seminar as a group of unbiased scholars who carefully sifted the evidence to discover what Jesus really said (and didn't say)",<ref>http://markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resources/unmaskingthejesus.htm</ref>

What is seen in Funk's paper the true mission of the Jesus Seminar, to present a fictionalized version of Jesus Christ to the masses, and to get them to believe that their "consensus" is the correct one.  According to author and Christian pastor Mark D. Roberts, the Seminar "wore a mask of scholarly objectivity and dispassionate scientific inquiry...based largely upon the image, one might be tempted to say 'the myth,' of the Seminar as a group of unbiased scholars who carefully sifted the evidence to discover what Jesus really said (and didn't say)",<ref>http://markdroberts.com/htmfiles/resources/unmaskingthejesus.htm</ref>

==Assumptions==

==Assumptions==