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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.

Bart D. Ehrman

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
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
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving Simple
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
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 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
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
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
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
A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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Fun Fundamental Mental
You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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Believe Desperately Someone 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
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
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

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