Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I want to talk about five wacky academic views of Jesus.

Now, you go on the internet, you can find all kinds of people who have unusual views

about who Jesus is.

You can find people with unusual views on all sorts of things on the internet, apparently.

You go to YouTube, go to Reddit, go to obscure message boards.

But I want to focus today on academics.

And by academic, I'll put that in quotation marks.

Some of these people were legitimate academics, scholars in fields that were relevant to the

study of scripture or at least ancient history.

Others are more their well-published authors, and they may be experts in one field.

And then they try to apply their thinking style to the Bible and come out with unusual

results.

That's what I want to focus on that these are not nobody's.

Okay, these are people some of whom were very respected biblical scholars even that came

out with really wacky is a word that I love the word wacky, by the way.

It kind of reminds me of Nickelodeon, wacky.

I feel like slime is going to come down on me right now.

Maybe I guess in academia, it's not wacky, it's unusual or it's counterintuitive, bizarre,

perhaps eccentric.

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