As time goes on, thing do get made up.
BART D. EHRMAN[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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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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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 think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it’s silly to talk about him not existing.
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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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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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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 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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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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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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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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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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Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
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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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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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