“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That,… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“As we will see, there are lots of other discrepancies in the New Testament, some of them far more difficult to reconcile… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Some people may think that it is a dangerous attitude to take toward the Bible, to pick and choose what you want… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“The idea that Wisdom could be a divine hypostasis—an aspect of God that is a distinct being from God that nonetheless is… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke,… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Whether you are a believer—fundamentalist, evangelical, moderate, liberal—or a nonbeliever, the Bible is the most significant book in the history of our… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Moreover, his view was precisely the one that many English Protestants feared would result from a careful analysis of the New Testament… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Henotheism is the view that there are other gods, but there is only one God who is to be worshipped. The Ten… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“I personally love the Bible. I read it all the time, in the original Greek and Hebrew; I study it; I teach… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“What if we have to figure out how to live and what to believe on our own, without setting the Bible up… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“If you get fired from your job, that’s outside your control, so you shouldn’t be personally invested in your job.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“It’s like what some Episcopalians say about themselves today: get four in a room and you’ll find five opinions.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“The Synoptics simply accept a Christological view that is different from Paul’s. They hold to exaltation Christologies, and Paul holds to an incarnation Christology.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“If Jesus really were equal with God from “the beginning,” before he came to earth, and he knew it, then surely the Synoptic Gospels… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Moreover, this earlier tradition has a different view of Christ than the one that Paul explicates elsewhere in his surviving writings. Here, unlike in… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Origen delved into theological areas that had not yet been examined by any of his predecessors in the faith .. Later theologians questioned his… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was “greater” than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“What we think of as the twenty-seven books of “the” New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Paul, by the way, never says that Jesus declared himself to be divine.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it. . . . But I don't have anyone… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“pastors don’t want to make waves; or they don’t think their congregations are “ready” to hear what scholars are saying;” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
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