In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.”
BART D. EHRMANHis 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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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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My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition.
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I don’t know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.
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As time goes on, thing do get made up.
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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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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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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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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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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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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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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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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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[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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A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.
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