“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
“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
