My Opinion on the Jesus Seminar

      The Jesus Seminar is an association of modern liberal biblical scholars which presuposes a naturalistic worldview with disregard for supernatural occurences.  Because of their strong naturalistic understanding, the Scriptures are seen not as an inspired inerrant text, but rather as only a metaphor, albeit the right metaphor. Steeped in higher criticism, the Jesus Seminar attempted to determine in the Scriptures what Jesus most likely said.  The product of this is a bible with a color coded text which reveals what the Jesus Seminar decided Christ must have said and that which he surely did not say.
      I do not agree with the Jesus Seminar in what they do, because I do not hold to a naturalistic viewpoint.  The Bible is the inspired and authoritative word of God which is the foundational revelation through which Christian theology is based. Human reason and religious experience is not good enough as revelation, because it is subjective and changing as we are not God. Whenever I see miracles occur in the Bible, I believe that an actual miracle took place.  Christianity rests on Jesus' divinity, His atoning work on the cross, and His physical resurrection.  Without this truth, Christianity is void.
      Also, I do not even attempt to believe that I am the highest source of understanding when it comes to theology; God is.  Therefore, by my limited ability to fully understand the intricasies of God and all He is, I lend myself to faith.  In no way am I saying that faith is unreasonable.  On the contrary, faith is reasonable, but I simply admit that I do not have the full capacities to reason everything and put it in a box.  God has done a work in me, that I may believe in Him, but this belief does not stop with an empty faith, it is faith that seeks understanding.
      Overall, the Jesus Seminar misses the mark of true theology.  In their attempt to reconcile the Bible with human reason and naturalism, they have turned the Word of God into the Metaphor of God.  For the Jesus Seminar there is a great divide in the importance of objective truth over metaphorical truth.  Without a strong biblical grounding, the Jesus Seminar promotes religious experience governed by modern philosophy and understanding as the foundation for knowing God. 

The following video is a good short clip on the Jesus Seminar by William Lane Craig.