New Testament scholar Gerd Theissen and theologian Dagmar Winter say one aspect of the criterion of embarrassment is "resistance to tendencies of the tradition". It works on the assumption that what goes against the general tendencies of the early church is historical. For example, criticisms of Jesus go against the tendency of the early church to worship him, making it unlikely the early church community invented statements such as those accusing Jesus of being in league with Satan (), or being a glutton and drunkard (). Theissen and Winter sum this up with what can also be referred to as "enemy attestation": when friends and enemies alike refer to the same events, those events are likely to be historical.