Red letter Bibles

[WhiteWings]

Of all modern Biblical scholars, none have gained so much publicity and been so readily accessible to the lay reader than a group called the Jesus Seminar. Over 150 Biblical scholars pooled their knowledge for the express purpose of analyzing the Gospels to determine which words and deeds were authentic to Jesus. Their resulting "Scholars' Editions" of the Gospels were remarkable for the few passages that were thought to be original to Jesus. For Universalists, the most significant result of the Seminar's scrutiny was their inadvertent highlighting of many Universalist passages. By far, verses advocating Universal Salvation received the most endorsement from the Jesus Seminar as authentic to Jesus. While they rejected some of the "zingers" (e.g., Jn 12:32), virtually all Jesus' classic parables that have been interpreted as Universalist since the beginning of Christian theology were judged by the Jesus Seminar to be genuine to him, including: The Parable of the Lost Sheep (Matt 18:12-13; Lk 15:4-6), The Workers in the Vineyard (Matt 20:1-15), The Parable of the Lost Coin (Lk 15:8-9), and the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Lk 15:11-32). Also, the verses relating to the fact that Hell is not permanent and used only for rehabilitation/purification were determined authentic by the Jesus Seminar. They are: Settle with Your Opponent (Matt 5:25 -26; Lk 12:58 -59) and the Parable of the Wicked Servant (Matt 18:23 -34). Finally, although it was mutilated in part by the Jesus Seminar scholars, Jesus' teaching to be like God and love our enemies as God is good to the just and the unjust (Matt 5:44-46) was voted genuine to Jesus.


It is noteworthy that the Seminar rejected all of the verses relating to the "Jesus Saves" theology as original to Jesus. John Calvin's Predestination fared only slightly better with only two verses seen as original to Jesus (Matt 6:10 , 10:29 ). Some classic sayings of Jesus on Good Works were deemed authentic, such as Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30 -35), Jesus on forgiveness (Matt 6:12 ), and the Parable of the Sower (Mk 4:3-8; Matt 13:3-8; Lk 8:5-8). (Tentmaker Ministries does NOT endorse Jesus Seminar.)

Question: Are there 2 types of red letter Bibles? Let's call it the standard-version and the Jesus-Seminar-version.
I have a King James red letter version and I wonder what type it is.

[Pierac]

The King James comes from a completely different Greek text... commonly known as the Textus Receptus

The Jesus  Seminar take their text from the Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition, same as the UBS 4th edition except for the critical apparatus of course!   :thumbsup:


Paul

[WhiteWings]

Ok a different Greek text. But is that what the article is about?
The way I read it: Usually red letter Bibles have 200 verses printed in red. (number is just an example)
The Jesus edition has only 50 verses printed in red. (again number as an example)
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