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divine. That means they need to be regarded as historical sources likely to con-
tain divine elements.
According to Christian belief, the texts of the Gospels were written
by different people under divine inspiration. Accordingly, every line in the
New Testament is regarded as true. However, the contradictions be-
tween the Gospels make this impossible and refute the claim of divine in-
spiration. The fact that the same event is described in different ways

shows that the account in question is the product of human memory, un-
derstanding, prejudice, and expectations.
When looking at the Christian sources, one notices an attempt to in-
terpret these very different accounts in the four Gospels as complementary
to one another. According to this logic, each Gospel provides a different
view of Prophet Jesus (pbuh). Yet that is mistaken. We are dealing with four
different texts and four different accounts, because the authors have four
different ideas about Prophet Jesus (pbuh). According to contemporary

Biblical scholars, they employed the true facts about Prophet Jesus
(pbuh), and even used the true gospel imparted to him as a source, but
they interpreted that revelation in the light of their own beliefs and then
reshaped or broadened it with additional material. In Who Is Jesus?
Answers to Your Questions about the Historical Jesus, co-authored with
Richard G. Watts, one of the most important of these researchers, John
Dominic Crossan, comments on these differences:
Actually, the fact that we have four Gospels lies at the very heart of
our problem. Because as we read particular parables or sayings or
stories in several different versions, we can't miss the disagreements
between them. At first we are tempted to say, "Well, witnesses sim-
ply remember the same things differently." But it is clear that, when
Matthew and Luke wrote their gospels, they had copies of Mark
(the earliest of the New Testament gospels) in front of them. That
means that for much of their story of Jesus, Matthew and Luke are not in-
dependent sources, but variations of Mark. It also means that the varia-