Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“The time when Christianity arose, with its exalted claims about Jesus, was the same time when the emperor cult had started to… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“The earliest Christians held that God had exalted Jesus to a divine status at his resurrection. (This shows, among other things, that… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“the whole story was in fact a legend, that is, the burial and discovery of an empty tomb were tales that later… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“THE VIEW THAT THE earliest Christians understood Jesus to have become the Son of God at his resurrection is not revolutionary among… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“The view, that Christ was not by nature divine but was adopted to be God’s son, emerged not out of Jewish Christianity,… — 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
“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
“Modalism was the view that evidently was held by a majority of Christians at the beginning of the third century—including the most… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Christian followers of Jesus who knew about Apollonius maintained that he was a charlatan and a fraud; in response, the pagan followers… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“In some parts of the church, the Apocalypse of John (the book of Revelation) was flat out rejected as containing false teaching,… — 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
