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I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.

Bart D. Ehrman

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

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