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