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.
BART D. EHRMANIn 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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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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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 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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My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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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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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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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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[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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A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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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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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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In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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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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