http://Godnoliar.com/?p=62 I put some atheist keywords/tags below, so that Atheists/Agnostics could find this video. It would be interesting to hear what they have to say about this. Is Bishop NT Wright actually a subtle advocate for Atheism (when he says Jesus is insane?) [Keywords: nt wright bishop tom atheism atheist apologetics debate seminary christopher hitchens bill maher richard dawkins philsophy ron paul george carlin libertarian emerging church emergent john macarthur mark driscoll paul washer piper cs lewis theology new perspective auburn avenue ] NT Wright says Jesus Doubted he was God NT Wright in his book “The Meaning of Jesus”, writes… “I do not think Jesus “knew he was God” in the same way that one knows one is tired or happy, male or female. He did not sit back and think to himself, “Well I never! I’m the second person of the Trinity!” Rather, “as part of his human vocation, grasped in faith, sustained in prayer, tested in confrontation, agonized over further in prayer and doubt, and implemented in action, he believed that he had to do for Israel and the world, that which according to scripture only YHWH himself could do and be. The question is often raised as to whether such a position compromises Jesus’ modesty of his sanity. These objections gain their force from anachronistic assumptions about the way normal people behave; but in any case Jesus was frequently challenged on both grounds, and we have no reason to suppose, the early church made this material up. The Jesus I have described is both thoroughly credible as a first-century Jew and thoroughly comprehensible as the one to whom early, high, Jewish Christology looked back.” (The Meaning of Jesus, Wright & Borg, SPCK, 2003, p. 166). Wright seems quite certain about the psychology of Jesus. Notice how he asserts, “as part of [Christ’s] human vocation, grasped in faith, sustained in prayer, tested in confrontation, AGONIZED OVER FURTHER IN prayer and DOUBT and implemented in action, he ...
