ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
“In the four Gopels, therefore, the main documents
to which we must go if we are to fill-out at all that
bare sketch which we can Put together from other
sources, we find material of widely-differing quality
as regards credibility. So far-reaching is the element
of ucertainly that it is temptig to ‘down tools’ at once,
and to declare the task hopeless. The historical incon-
sistencies and impobabilities in parts of the Gospels
form some of arguments advanced in favour of the
Christ-myth theory. These are, however, entirely out-
weighed as we have shown-by ther considerations.
Still, the discrepancies and uncertainties that remain
are serious and consequently many moderns, who
have no doubt whatever of Jesus’ real existence, re-
gard as hopeless any attempt to dissolve out the his-
torically-true from the legendary or mythical matter
which the Gospels contain, and to recostruct the story
of Jesus’ mission out of the more historical residue.”
- C.J. Cadou: op. cit., pp.16,17.
