“One is called double dissimilarity,” he replied. “This means they can believe Jesus said something if it doesn’t look like something a rabbi or the later church would say. Otherwise they assume it got into the gospels from a Jewish or Christian source. “The obvious problem is that Jesus was Jewish and he founded the Christian church, so it shouldn’t be surprising if he sounds Jewish and Christian!
I can see the danger in this. Always assuming the worst - is a huge problem.
