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I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.

Bart D. Ehrman

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Critical Inbreds Religious Thinking
As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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Goes Made Time
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
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
[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
Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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Atheist Believe Views
I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don’t have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don’t see any plausible way of filling it.
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Fantastic Gratitude Life Someone Wanting
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
A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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Fun Fundamental Mental
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
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
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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Creating Jesus Problem Transplant
No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John’s account of Jesus’ death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?
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Account Death Kind Mention Theological
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

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