The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
BART D. EHRMANIn Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.”
More Bart D. Ehrman Quotes
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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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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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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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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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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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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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In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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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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[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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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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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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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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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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A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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