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

Bart D. Ehrman

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving Simple
You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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Believe Desperately Someone Want
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
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
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
Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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Atheist Believe Views
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
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
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
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
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
As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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Goes Made Time
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
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
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Critical Inbreds Religious Thinking
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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Children Jesus Kings

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