Death Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“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

“It’s like what some Episcopalians say about themselves today: get four in a room and you’ll find five opinions.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Paul, by the way, never says that Jesus declared himself to be divine.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

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

“similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“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