Books Quote by Bart D. Ehrman Download Open image ““The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul”” — Bart D. Ehrman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Paul may be an excellent source for those interested in the early formation of Christianity, but he is a poor guide for uncovering the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.” — Adlai Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Paul is the classic example of the early Christian who has woven resurrection so thoroughly into his thinking and practice that if you take… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“he repudiated the writings of the Apostle Paul," whom he considered the (first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Paul did not begin by attacking the false teachers and their doctrines. He began by exalting Jesus Christ and showing His preeminence in five… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and… — Michael J. Gorman Copy Share Image
“Paul repeatedly promises Christians that nothing can separate them from the love of that God who is “for” them.” — George R. Knight Copy Share Image
“That Paul and I formed part of the deep meaning of each other’s lives is one of the greatest blessings that has ever come… — Paul Kalanithi 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
“For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need… — William Barclay 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
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My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image