There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty. — 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
“There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.” — 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
“In Galatians 4:14 Paul is not contrasting Christ with an angel; he is equating him with an angel.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Justin’s Logos Christology is more advanced and philosophically developed than that found in the Fourth Gospel.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Eventually incarnation Christologies developed significantly and overtook exaltation Christologies, which came to be deemed inadequate and, eventually, “heretical.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“In Romans 1:4, the phrase “in power” (has been) widely argued by scholars that Paul added these words to the creed.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“But one thing they all (i.e., E. P. Sanders, Geza Vermes, Dale Allison, Paula Fredriksen, and many others) agree on: Jesus did… — 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
“The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
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
In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away… — 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
“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
“It will become clear in the following chapters that Jesus was not originally considered to be God in any sense at all,… — 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… — 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
“Scholars have long recognized that Luke himself wrote these speeches—they are not the speeches that these apostles really delivered at one time… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at… — bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“This oldest Christology of all may be found in the preliterary traditions in Paul and the book of Acts, but it is… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite apparent discrepancies—I read John for years without realizing how strange this one is—comes in Jesus’ “Farewell Discourse,” the… — 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
“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
“Whoever wrote the Gospel of John (we’ll continue to call him John, though we don’t know who he really was) must have… — 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
“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
“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
“Paul started out as an outsider to the apostolic band and originally opposed rather than supported their movement.” — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“WE HAVE SEEN THAT those holding adoptionist views of Christ claimed to represent the earliest views of Jesus’s own apostles .. Docetic… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“It is because in John’s Gospel we are not hearing two voices—the voice of Jesus and the voice of the narrator. We… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about… — 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… — 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,… — 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
“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
