In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet.
BART D. EHRMANA fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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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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In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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