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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don’t want to go there.

Bart D. Ehrman

[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
My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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Fun Giving Simple
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
As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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Goes Made Time
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
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 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
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
You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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Believe Desperately Someone Want
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 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
A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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Fun Fundamental Mental
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
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
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
Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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Atheist Believe Views

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