Bias Quote by Reza Aslan

“The first Christian author we have is the Apostle Paul”

— Bart D. Ehrman

“For he also researched the history of Christianity and felt it was based on many earlier fraudulent mistakes made by those bent on perverting…

— Lee Vickers

“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

“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

“The first-hand information Paul needed about Jesus either as a man, or as the promised Jewish Messiah was to be found in Arabia rather…

— Kamal Salibi

“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

“Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels,…

— George Albert Wells

“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

Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development…

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

“Paul's aspiration was to know Jesus Christ in a way that was experiential.”

— Henry Hon

“we must not forget that people came to Christ from every kind of background and that the early Christian community included more than a…

— Pope Benedict XVI