The Mythical Christ
“The Jesus of popular belief was largely a mythological figure. I would be sorry to have to try to reconstruct in any detail the history portrait of Jesus, or to say exactly where history ended and mythology began.” — Rev. Nowell C. Smith, Headmaster of Sherborne College.
The Fallible and Erring Christ
“Jesus did not claim divinity for Himself. He was in the fullest sense a man. The Divinity of Christ―for He was Divine—did not necessarily imply the Virgin Birth or any other miracle; nor did it imply omniscience. He knew no more than His contemporaries of mental diseases or of the authorship of the Pentateuch, or the Psalms. It was difficult to deny that Christ entertained some expectations about the future which history had not verified.”―The Dean of Carlisle.
Jesus No More Than a Man
“Jesus Himself did not claim in the Gospels to be the Son of God in a physical sense, such as the narratives of the Virgin Birth suggest; nor did He claim to be the Son of God in a metaphysical sense, such as was required by the Nicene theology. He claimed to be God’s Son in a moral sense, in the sense in which all human beings are sons of God.” ―Rev. H. D. A. Major, Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford.
The Miracles—Supernatural or Natural?
“In the light of modern psycho-therapeutic cures the miracles could be accepted as facts without recourse to the idea of Divine intervention outside the laws of Nature.”―Rev. C. W. Emmet, Vice-Principal of Ripon Hall.
These quotations are from men today who are placed in positions of great trust in regard to the young and others. Thus they betray the trust placed in them to God and to their fellow-men.