Baggini has done something that I wished I'd thought of. That is, he's taken a look at the new testament and stripped out all the "supernatural" stuff and tried to pare the gospels back to just the unvarnished moral instruction that Jesus was supposed to deliver. He's trying to answer the question: "Was Jesus and great moral teacher". I think he's done a fair job of stripping the "god" out of the gospels but he could have done better. I think modern scholars are pretty much of the view that some of the material in the King James version was added in after the original gospels were written. For example, the "woman taken in adultery" has a lot of stuff that the earliest versions of the text do not have ...plus some pretty strange stuff about handling serpents etc....which various sects in the USA have taken literally. ( )