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Tuesday, December 11, 1973
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KU 'Preachers' Put Faith in Bible
By STEVEN W. LEWIS
Kansan Staff Reporter
A KU student was again preaching the gospel of Jesus to an unresponsive procession of University of Kansas students and professors:
"Jesus Christ really lived. He was killed for man's sins. It is a fair tale, it isn't a myth. Our rebellion against God has a price. I want to challenge you with what you are going to do about your moral debt to Jesus. You reject him, you are going to die."
Occasionally, a passerby would retort, "Shut up," "Hall Caesar" or "Get screwed," but most of the time the student was ignored.
He said public speaking was one way set forth in the Bible to communicate God's will.
one student, a KU junior who asked to be identified as J.D., said in an interview last week that his primary desire was to communicate God's love.
"The love of God must be communicated with one's whole life. If Jesus had communicated God's love as living a good life, wouldn't have been put to death," J. D. Sasas, author.
He said he wasn't trying to get people to join a group.
"WHEN I was a freshman I lived in a fraternity," he said. "The guys there talked a lot about brotherhood, but no one seemed to be able to do anything about it.
"The fraternity definition of morality was 'Don't get too smacked at parties, study Friday nights and have some control over your sexual desire.'"
J. D. said fraternity life left him unsatisfied. "I wa-ted to know what love really was." he said.
Man's inherent selfishness has caused a separation between man and God, he said, saying, "God is more powerful than
"The Bible says we cannot truly love man until we know God."
J. D. said modern religion educators being honest in their approach to the Bible.
"If you just approach the Bible as literature and myth, you aren't be honest about it," he said. "The basic problem isn't that people don't want to accept the Bible because it has been tampered with, they won't accept it because it claims to be from God."
"I've never met a person, who, with intellectual honesty, could show that the Bible wasn't the word of God," he said. "I've read portions of the New Testament in the original English, and it said the same thing as it does in English."
J. D. said a modern trend in Christianity was to substitute the teachings of popular theologians for the actual teachings in the Bible.
HE SAID a person's view of the Bible was determined more by his morality than by his intellect.
"I wouldn't tell a person he shouldn't read different books," O. D. said, "if he judged you for being stupid."
J. D. said he came to know Christ through the Bible. He said it would be murder, in effect, if he didn't share his experience with others.
"The whole world is in the same boat without Christ. He said, The world is nothing but Christ."
preaching turned persons away from Jesus. "I looked up the definition of 'the word alienation,'" it means to turn someone away from something they were already directed for. Therefore, it's impossible to turn someone away because they weren't turned on to in the first place.
"We were created to have a relationship with God so I will continue to share."
"All the things that used to be said about God, such as infallibility and omniscience," said Jeske, "are now being said about the Bible."
Richard L. Jeske, assistant professor of religion, said last week that he thought the Christian fundamentalists on campus were "misconducting" the center of Christian faith.
"IT'S AMAZING how few people know how the Bible got to us," he said. "For the first four centuries after Jesus, Christians didn't even have a Bible."
Jeske said there was Christian faith long before there was a New Testament.
Jeske said the campus fundamentalists tended to react fearfully toward the religion faculty or anyone else who could discredit their beliefs.
"We are on an intellectual level, not an emotional one," Jeske said. "Many of them say the intellectual study of the Bible is illegitimate. They say that to study the origin and background of the Bible is being disrespectful."
Six long-time faculty members at the University of Kansas have been appointed task force chairmen for the University's self-study of its missions and programs.
world looking at Islam. It isn't how much faith you have, but where it's placed."
Six KU Faculty Members To Chair Task Forces
The six task force chairmen have a combined total of 111 years teaching expe-
Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and chairman of the Institutional Self-Study Steering Committee, associate task force chairmen will be Richard De George, professor of philosophy; William M. Lucas, associate dean of architecture and urban design; George Worth, chairman of the department of English; Elden Fields, associate dean of geography; Cohn, associate dean of liberal arts; and Charles Warriner, professor of sociology.
"Each chairman will focus upon a par
Hutchison, who was appointed in October by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes to chair the Institutional Self-Study Steering Committee, said departments and divisions should work together on self-studies. Each will produce a report which will in an to the task force chairmen.
J. D. SAID he didn't think his campus
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Jeske said the fundamentalist students who had opened their mind to a more complete study of the Bible usually came to a greater appreciation of it.
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Hutchison said that each task force would produce a final summary from all departmental and division reports received in accordance with the undertaken task force committees.
"The final report will analyze the University of Kansas today in terms of its strengths and weaknesses," said Hutchison. "It is important that we be accredited purposes but by budgetary decision makers, long-range planning groups and by the Chancellor and his staff, as well as university administrators in making priority decisions regarding the future course of the University."
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"Botanical science has brought us to an ever greater appreciation about the growth of a tree," he said. "The more we learn about the tree, the more we come to love it for what it is. It is the same way with the Bible."
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"IF THE BIBLE is God's word, then critical and intellectual injury won't happen."
Jeske said that when poole claimed to be quoting Jesus, they were really quoting the various authors of the books of the Gospel. Jeske also said there weren't any original
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Jeeke said he was disappointed that the campus fundamentals weren't willing to accept it.
"There was a group of these people outside my classroom door last spring banding out literature," he said, "I invited them to class. The class they in at class but said nothing."
"I invited them to my office to talk, but only one came."
JESKE SAID he thought the campus preachers enjoyed being yelled at.
"They must have a need for negative strokes," he said. "They feel a negative response isn't humiliating but satisfying, maybe their favorite game is kick-me."
Jeske said, however, that he had good experiences with fundamentalists who opened themselves up to the historical study of the New Testament.
Lynn Taylor, dean of the School of Religion, said the campus preachers were using persuasive methods that were out of date today.
"The style was most effective a century ago," Taylor said. "The best style today is the rap session, where students discuss calmly among themselves."
Taylor said another reason for what he called their lack of success was that they weren't coming through logically to the students.
"I said in class one day that the earliest books on Jesus were from about the 8th century and that errors could have crept in during the preceding centuries," Taylor wrote of the school of Religion, handing out mimeographed papers refuting what I had said.
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