and no one knows how much the Gospels had been
changed during the centuries in which no manuscript
is available; (9) that there are considerable diffeer-
ences at may places among the various extant manu-
scripts of the fourth and fifth century; and (10) that
the Gospels taken as a whole are full of contradic-
tions.
These facts disclosed by distinguished Western
scholars go to show that the Gospel of Jesus, by
which we mean the Message which Jeus had re-
ceived from God, has ot reached us in its original
form. The four Gospels included in the Bible cannot
be considered identical with the ispired Gospel of Je-
sus. The manner of their composition and the cir-
cumstances through which they have passed are such
that they cannot be relied upon to give us exact
knowledge of what Jesus had said and taught. C.J.
Cadou- xsums p the position in these words in his
book Life of Jesus.
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