Church struggles aside, what does the work of liberal biblical scholars mean to the ordinary believer, the average person in the pew?

不管教会的抗争，自由派学者的研究对于普通信徒及一般民众有什么影响？

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Biblical scholars turned their noses up, calling it hysteria, theatrics, a faith of the illiterate.

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Biblical scholars and clergy say there's no evidence of a cover-up or conspiracy to suppress those ideas.

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Biblical scholars have called Gibson's reading of the New Testament into question, and rumors abound that the script's sources include an 18th-century Roman Catholic mystic.

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