His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!
BART D. EHRMANThere are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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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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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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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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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.”
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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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In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else.
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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there.
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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.
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[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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