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Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option – legend.

Bart D. Ehrman

Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?
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Around Both Possible Switch Thing True
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet.
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Christian Jesus Zero
A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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Fun Fundamental Mental
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally.
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Life Live Needs Writing
As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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Goes Made Time
Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option – legend.
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Christian God Jesus
Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
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Bible Everything Inspire Intelligence People Unique
Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.
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Associated Betrayal Christian Circle Jesus Lead
His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!
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Correspondance Found Inscription Name Single
Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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Atheist Believe Views
You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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Believe Desperately Someone Want
Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.
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Accident Another Blunder Omisison Pure Simple Slip Word
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving Simple
Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the historian, but because they have some other agenda that this denial serves.
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Agendas Eye Jesus
I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.
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Bible Jesus Silly
I don’t know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.
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Credence Know Living Responsible Trained

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option – legend.

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