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Former fundamentalist 'debunks' Bible
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| May 15, 2009
Posted on 05/15/2009 12:18:43 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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Bart Ehrman says most of the New Testament is a forgery but it's still an important body of work.
To: JoeProBono
BartBack into the rubber room, Bart.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:20:44 PM PDT
by
IbJensen
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money."Thatcher)
To: JoeProBono
I bet Bart doesn’t have many friends ...
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:21:18 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: JoeProBono
Ehrman, a best-selling author and a professor of religious studies... The #1 requirement for all professors of religious studies is that they not be religious.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:21:34 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: JoeProBono
I will have to read more on this latest book, but it doesn’t sound like any new material compared to some of his other recent works.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:22:13 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:22:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: DonaldC
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:23:02 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
His name might as well be Bart Simpson? Never heard of him.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:23:12 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Please God Save The United States From The Democrats, and Barack Hussein Obama. Amen.)
To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
Bible debunks Bart:
"The fool says in his heart 'there is no God'."
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:24:49 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(As fruit of principled action incrementalism is God's Hand. As strategy, it's the devil's playground)
To: JoeProBono
Some of his arguments are ridiculous.
"Jesus didn't physically appear, it was just a vision."
That's why he ate fish at one of their houses right?
"Paul says women should stay silent here, and over here he said they were church leaders."
Anyone who studied the Pauline Epistles would be able to explain it to him in a short time.
But, he doesn't believe the scriptures are true anyway, they are all "forgeries", so no argument would hold water with him.
He knocks down kids blocks in a sandbox to prove that the Church is not stable.
To: JoeProBono
If anything, I believe Jesus will return simply to collect royalties owed by people trying to profit off His name.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:27:57 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: EternalVigilance
I read Ehrman’s book “Misquoting Jesus”, and for balance I read “Misquoting Truth” by Timothy Paul Jones and “Fabricating Jesus” by Craig A. Evans. The areas of textual criticism discussed in these books is fascinating but overall, if your faith was dependent on a particular sequence of words in a text, you don’t have a mature faith and that is what clouds many of Ehrman’s conclusions, imho.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:27:59 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: JoeProBono
He says he's not trying to destroy your faith.CNN will probably give him his own primetime show.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:28:44 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
But, he doesn't believe the scriptures are true anyway, they are all "forgeries"I still wonder how you can forge prose.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:29:25 PM PDT
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pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: SampleMan
The #1 requirement for all professors of religious studies is that they not be religious.
Very much the truth. Religious studies professors study religion--not faith. And they remain quite ignorant about or simply ignore history.
"His claims, though, take on some of Christianity's most sacred tenets, like the resurrection of Jesus. Ehrman says he doesn't think the resurrection took place. There's no proof Jesus physically rose from the dead, and the resurrection stories contradict one another, he says."
How, pray tell, then, did a branch of what was essentially a small, isolated sect in Judaism spread throughout the Roman Empire? Christianity remained largely a lower class phenomenom, yet it spread rapidly. It lacked power, money, influence, and mainstream appeal. And yet it spread from one end of the known world to the other.
People often ignore the spread of other forms of faith. You simply don't see them spread as Christianity spread.
To: JoeProBono
Wow, thousands of years of biblical scholarship, and all of a sudden Burt Ehrman vaults ahead of all and debunks everything. What a genius.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:30:55 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(The second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: JoeProBono
I would love to see a “Texas Death Cage Match” between this clown and N.T. Wright.
T’would be a slaughter, I tell ya....
To: pnh102
“I still wonder how you can forge prose. “
Forgery in the day was not copying text per se and taking credit for it, but writing a text and claiming the work was penned by someone else, like an apostle.
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posted on
05/15/2009 12:31:51 PM PDT
by
DonaldC
To: JoeProBono
He should get together with Rick Warren and Barack Hussein Obama. They all share the same belief in the Gospel.
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