Bart Ehrman says most of the New Testament is a forgery but it's still an important body of work.
Bart Ehrman says most of the New Testament is a forgery but it's still an important body of work.
Does he speak Greek and Hebrew? Otherwise don’t waste my time.
As others have pointed out the bible is quite probably THE most-studied book in human history. It has been subjected to every form of calumny, misrepresentation and distortion that human minds have been able to conjure - all of them repeated with monotonous regularity over the centuries. This fellow has not and will not come up with anything new, startling or even interesting.
Critics have been “debunking” the bible and pointing out the contradictions and inconsistencies for as long as there has been a bible. The bible is still here. Where are the critics?
It’s great to see my NC taxes are going to fund to such profound work. /s
I was raised as an evangelical Christian and graduated from a evangelical fundamentalist Bible College.
I have never heard of this man.
The simple fact that there are apocryphal texts that the church voted out of the bible would seem to be a form of validation that the bible is a book by men and not the true and infallible word of a supreme being.
Some questions:
If the world was flooded in the old testament and the Noah’s Ark story is real, where did the water come from and to where did it recede?
Why would God put Job through all those hardships just to prove a point to the devil? If He’s omnipotent, he could do something else (not involving cruelty to a faithful servant) to show the devil the truth of things.
Jesus’ mother was a virgin when she gave birth, yet science tells us that a woman can get pregnant without penetration as long as there is exposure to semen. Isn’t it possible that Mary and Joseph did some fooling around (of a sexual nature, but without intercourse) that resulted in her pregnancy?
As far as I can tell, Ehrman is right about that point. The earliest versions we have of the books of the Bible are very different from the versions we all read today.
At least 19 of the 27 books in the New Testament are forgeries.
Forgeries is a very strong word, stronger than I would choose. But the evidence is clear that these books have been significantly and substantially altered. Sometimes it was a transcription error; often it was insertion or deletion to fit a particular audience or a particular agenda.
“Ididn’tdoitnobodysawmedoityoucan’tproveanything!”
I see Goerge Costanza finally got a real job.
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In the end he’ll be debunked, not that I need to defend the Bible, because God or His Word don’t need my defense, but He’s going to find out some day how wrong he is..
many are invited but few are chosen
Full of historical evidence of the Bible.
But, besides that,, the devil has been trying this crap from the beginning of time. Satan started this in the Garden of Eden. "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" Gen 3:1.
Did God really say that??? Did He??? Are you sure??? Are you sure it's not a lie?? Sure He's real???
Believe what you want. I believe the Bible. I believe God. I believe Jesus was Who He said He was! I believe in hell and heaven! Choose what you want,, as for me,,, I believe!
Yeah right and people died to preserve the Gospel and the words of Christ. Including the apostles. I don’t want what your smoking bart.
Jesus, Interrupted:
Revealing the Hidden
Contradictions in the Bible
(And Why We Don't Know About Them)
by Bart D. Ehrman
Kindle Edition
Audio Download
Only a total idiot could think that forgery could be “an important body of work.”
Bart, your meds are ready...
He has been decisively rebutted so many times, yet keeps repeating himself.
It’s not about facts or truth.
