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

Bart D. Ehrman

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving 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
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
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
There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Critical Inbreds Religious Thinking
[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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