Authenticity Quote by Paulo Coelho

“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of…

— Alvar Ellegård

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths,…

— John Adams

I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try…

— John Shelby Spong

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it:…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one…

— Brennan Manning

“At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client's back, as the three…

— Mark Scandrette

I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am…

— C. S. Lewis

“The gospel keeps me relating to God on the basis of Jesus’s perfections, not on the illusions of my religious achievements.”

— Gloria Furman

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

— Rachel Held Evans

“Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the state of…

— Megan McKenna

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All Jesus' pictures are falsifications; they cannot be about the real Jesus. This real man must have been totally different, because we know he…

— Rajneesh