"Thank you for your help in all that you do to show the truth that is in Christ. I really only have one question, and, to be honest, it frustrates me to no end. It occurs almost every single time I discuss Christianity with someone. The question of "Is Jesus a copied myth or Real Person?" is the source of objection I get most of the time. They put in all of the similarities from Christ to other mythological gods and star..."
Dr. Craig Responds:
The late Robert Funk, founder of the radical Jesus Seminar, used to complain bitterly of the chasm that exists between high scholarship and popular beliefs about Jesus. Funk was thinking primarily of the insulation of popular piety from historical Jesus scholarship; but nowhere does the chasm yawn wider than between popular impiety and historical Jesus studies...