in Newsweek magazine some years back in an article entitled Oh Lord who wrote thy prayer O Lord who
wrote thy prayer a group of theologians in the u.s. they after analyzing these are theologians
from all of the major sects of Protestantism and Catholicism they gather together and they formed a
group which they call the Jesus seminary the Jesus seminary and they wrote a text which they referred
to as the five Gospels in this text they mentioned the well known for and what they did was they
color-coded the text in two different colors one color represented the text which they were certain
or reasonably certain that Jesus actually said then the next level of color-coding were texts
which were possibly what Jesus said then what was highly unlikely that he said and then that which
was absolutely certain he didn't say so they gave it different grades with different colors
the fifth gospel was the Gospel of Thomas which had been discovered in 1945 in Egypt in the NAG
Hammadi written in Coptic a translation and which had confirmation from documents of the first and
second century bits and pieces which had existed in Greek prior to that people didn't know what
these documents were related to and it was after the discovery of that Coptic translation that they
realized that these were bits and pieces of the Gospel of Thomas anyway the point is this group
the Jesus seminary they concluded after analyzing the Lord's Prayer what is known in Christianity as
the Lord's Prayer it begins our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy
will be done on earth as in heaven so on and so forth give us this day our daily bread and it's
cetera this is the standard prayer for Christians similar to Al Fatiha for Muslims Muslims recite
the first chapter of the Quran in their daily prayers so for Christians the Lord's Prayer is
the most central prayer shared by all Christians and in the biblical context in the Gospels it is
Jesus who is telling his companions is prayer that they should make anyway the Jesus seminary after
analyzing the Lord's Prayer concluded that the only words of the Lord's Prayer which could be
accurately attributed to Jesus meaning it's highly likely that this is what Jesus said the only word
turned out to be one word which was father one word of the whole prayer which Christians have
been saying for centuries believing that Jesus actually taught this now the meaning of the Lord's
Prayer is good it has a good meaning and actually from the Islamic perspective from Islam there
really isn't anything contradictory though the issue of God being the Father human beings being
his children is something which one may raise objection to unless it is used in a metaphorical
context and it's understood that that's how it was used anyway so the meaning was fine but the
reality in terms of scriptural authenticity was that it couldn't be attributed to Jesus