Scholars To Debate If Jesus Existed

Internationally recognized biblical scholars are set to launch The Jesus Project, a new endeavour to examine the historical existence of Christ.

The project is intended to pick up where the controversial Jesus Seminar left off in its research into the veracity of Jesus's words and deeds in the Bible.

The seminar has lost momentum in recent years, but in its heyday, about 200 scholars met regularly to discuss whether Jesus really behaved as the Bible says he did.

The scholars voted using a system of beads -- red for accurate, pink for probable, grey for possible but unreliable, and black for improbable -- and found 82 per cent of Jesus's sayings, and 84 per cent of his deeds were unreliable to improbable.

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