David Tacey the Australian public intellectual, writer and interdisciplinary scholar, says, “I think the New Testament is mixture of myth and history. Now, the big puzzle is which parts are history and which parts are myth.”
What does he think when the bible reports that Jesus fed 5,000 with five loaves of bread and two fish?
‘In my view, nobody at the time would have read that particular miraculous feeding literally,’ says Tacey. ‘In other words, the sat at his feet, he provided spiritual nourishment and it was as if they were fed with loaves and fishes, and then there were 10 baskets full in the end to collect.’
This is not new; this is reminiscent of the now unmasked “Jesus Seminar.”
This is simply a new spin on the same old unsubstantiated type of bad scholarship that preys on the unlearned.
So what do they call this version of Christianity where the bible is considered myth? “Progressive Christianity”