Christianity Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“The earliest Christians held that God had exalted Jesus to a divine status at his resurrection. (This shows, among other things, that this is…

— 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

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove.…

— Jon Meacham

“The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a…

— Christine M. Johns

“In this pre-Lukan tradition, Jesus was made the Son of God at the resurrection. This is a view Luke inherited from his tradition, and…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“The resurrection of Jesus is not to be understood in good liberal fashion as a spiritual development in the church. Nor should it be…

— Walter Brueggemann

“This oldest Christology of all may be found in the preliterary traditions in Paul and the book of Acts, but it is not the…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Paul's portrayal of Jesus as Christ may sound familiar to contemporary Christians—it has since become the standard doctrine of the church—but it would have…

— Reza Aslan

“WE HAVE SEEN THAT those holding adoptionist views of Christ claimed to represent the earliest views of Jesus’s own apostles .. Docetic views, when…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“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

I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son…

— Deepak Chopra

“until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet … a great and powerful man, but a man…

— Dan Brown