No such thing as the ‘gospel truth’

<p>The long-standing English idiom &lsquo;the gospel truth&rsquo;, taken to mean &lsquo;the absolute truth&rsquo;, and derived from the alleged record of Christ&rsquo;s life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament, is no longer tenable (if it ever really was).</p> <p>This is confirmed unequivocally by&nbsp;<em>Mistaken Messiahs: The Real Truth about the Ancient Roots of Judaism and Christianity</em>&nbsp;(Singular Books, October 2023), in which textual scholar Dr Paul McGrane explains cogently how Jewish messianic belief found its way into the New Testament and Christianity, how the Jesus of the Gospels was &lsquo;a fiction disguising a more mundane reality&rsquo;, and why we cannot trust anything the Gospels say about this character.</p> <p><a href="https://geoffjward.medium.com/no-such-thing-as-the-gospel-truth-bbbeca62d226"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>