A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
BART D. EHRMANNo 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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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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Different authors have different points of view. You can’t just say, ‘I believe in the Bible.
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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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In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology.
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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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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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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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[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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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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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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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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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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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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