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.
BART D. EHRMANTraditionally 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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[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 fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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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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A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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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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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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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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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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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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