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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.

Bart D. Ehrman

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
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
Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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Atheist Believe Views
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 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
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
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving Simple
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
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
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
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
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
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Critical Inbreds Religious Thinking
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

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