Quote by Bart D. Ehrman Download Open image ““Paul, by the way, never says that Jesus declared himself to be divine.”” — Bart D. Ehrman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But one thing they all (i.e., E. P. Sanders, Geza Vermes, Dale Allison, Paula Fredriksen, and many others) agree on: Jesus did not spend… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Paul sets forth the attitude to which the defender of the faith must be committed: "Let God be found true, but every man a… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
“Paul is normally very reticent to speak about the wonderful things God performs through him or reveals to him.” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
“although I was as zealous in my anti-faith as Paul was in his belief I would be lying if I did not confess to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“You do not say someone is holy because he puts forth great ideas concerning the knowledge of God and the attributes of God.” — Michael Molinos Copy Share Image
“Paul never thought of himself as having chosen God—it was the other way: God had chosen him. This” — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
“It is worth stressing that Paul does indeed speak about Jesus as God, as we have seen. This does not mean that Christ is… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
“Him?' Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray.” — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
“Before Jesus, it was all about earning and meriting and performing, and Paul knew that would eat us all alive—as it has.” — Richard Rohr 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
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
“This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that… — bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image