Very fine article. And Mike Licona is a very respected Christian apologist. Newsweek’s choice in selecting writers is why they are no longer in print. They have no credibility.
Ultimately, the only rebuttal necessary is: It’s Newsweek.
My wife and I watched Ehrman’s videos on the New Testament several years ago as published by The Teaching Company. We only watched the first several videos as we both concluded that Ehrman was a charlatan. It was stressful just watching those videos which were so full of baloney. In my opinion, he is no Christian. He is a man whom I doubt believes that Jesus is the Son of God. The real tragedy is the the University of North Carolina employs him as a professor in their Theology department.
“Yet in Luke 3:23, Eli (the father of Mary) is listed as the father of Joseph.....”
Cathoic tradition says the parents of Mary were Joachim and Anna. I believe this comes from some of the early books which did not make it into the Bible.
Unless the print edition comes back from the dead in a few days, count this as a victory.
I look forward to Newseak’s cover story “The Myths of Moehamhead”
When will they be so inquisitive about Obama’s history?
gosh--i thought this explanation was common knowledge by now... how does Dr. Ehrman not know this?
"Was Jesus the Original Bat-Man?"
Dr. Bart D. Ehrman needs to know the Truth or he will be with the others who hang their heads in shame when Jesus returns.
Jesus is going strong.
Newsweak? Gone and soon forgotten.
Thank you so much for this post! I have tried to find a historical answer to this point of contention many times. For me, it has never been a question, because Dr. Luke was there, had eyewitnesses, and meticulously recorderd facts accurately and chronologically in his Gospel and in the Acts of The Apostles. So I have believed. Of course, it always come down to the issue of credibility. Does one have:
- total confidence in The Faith, that of The Christ, The Lifegiver and The Truth Embodied, declared in the Documented Account of His Progressive Revelation, The Holy Bible;
or,
- a grasping-at-straws blind clinging to the falsehoods and misdirection of that Old Liar, Satan, the Destroyer?
In my early life, I just dodged the issues, until I could no longer ignore them. Now, being converted, regenerated, and trained as a discipler, I contend for The Faith once-and-for-all-time delivered to the saints, given to that body that increases year after year, century after century, to declare the Good News as His Heralds.
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What the article doesn't tell you is much about the author's (Dr. Bart D. Ehrman) own background. Newsweek mentions him as the author of "Did Jesus Exist?" and "Jesus Interrupted." But he formerly professed to be an evangelical Christian, who writes best-selling books that purport to debunk the reliability of the New Testament, such as "Forged," which postulates that much of the New Testament was forged (a charge easily dismissed).
He bills himself (or did) as now a "happy agnostic". He is in fact a bitter apostate.
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I have worked within academia for nearly forty years. The idea that scholars are objective and unbiased is totally wrong. Scholars have their own agendas and worldviews. It is important to remember that one does not advance in academia by defending traditional views. You have to find something new and controversial in order to gain notoriety. There is nothing that will call attention to yourself more than attacking traditional Christian beliefs. For those less knowledgeable of biblical scholarship, it is easy to muddy the waters with half-truths.