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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.

Bart D. Ehrman

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
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
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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Firsts Truth Want
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
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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Christian Mistake Simple
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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Jesus Mark Mean
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
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
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
You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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Believe Desperately Someone Want
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving Simple
A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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Fun Fundamental Mental
As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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Goes Made Time
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
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
[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

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