Dr. Bart Ehrman
Posted on 03/28/2011 12:48:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not those of true faith.
Controversy sells books.
I don’t think that I’d call Bart Ehrman a scholar.
Yet another attack on Christianity from the Ivory Tower of Babel
Voltaire tried this, now they print Bibles from the very house he wrote from.
Satan’s been on full court press for some time now. He knows where he’s going and he wants to try to drag as many of us as he can down with him.
I’m also sorry but I have to question how deep and genuine this guys’ faith was. I will never give up my faith, it’s the only thing that keeps me going. It’s the only way to make sense out of why things are the way they are in this fallen world and not go insane and start calling good evil, and evil, good. I know things aren’t supposed to be the way they are and God will return and finally tell us all, “Enough” and come to make things right.
Bottom line, it just sounds like someone who didn’t have real faith, lost it due to what he was taught in college. This one just wrote a book about it and hopes he can convince others of weak faith, to follow him.
Bart Ehrman?
LOL!
This is meta-tripe.
Ok, I’m declaring that I’m an expert at colleges and Princeton is a fraud.
Oh my, no more atheists will go to Princeton based on what I say.
If he is agnostic, he should be removed from teaching in a seminary, plain and simple.
The same principle applies as to why we don’t allow anti-American foreigners to hold the office of Presdident . . . at least once upon a time.
Seems pretty weak if by “forged” he merely means that there is no overt authorship. Particularly if he’s looking only at the writing hand of whoever penned it. It seems pretty likely that Paul, for example, would have co-written a letter with Timothy, with Timothy doing most if not all of the actual scribing. The two of them discussing what ought to be said and what topics need to be addressed.
I don’t see how this challenges the content, purpose, or even inspiration of the books.
Critical scholars have been doing this for over a century.
It’s a game of topping what the last critical scholar has said in criticism of scripture.
These guys start their study ventures with a pantload of presuppositions and self-fulfilling parameters and then miraculously verify them in their conclusions.
Dr. Bart Ehrman
Faith in Jesus is separate from faith in “The Word”.I know many who worship the “bible” like a false God. They have trouble with contradictions and errors. These are secretarial reflections and are valuable to tell us what happened but not to be worshiped in my view.
ping for later reading....
Mincemeat, indeed.
How did I know this would be Bart Ehrman?
In 2006 and 2009 he appeared on The Colbert Report, as well as The Daily Show, to promote his books Misquoting Jesus, and Jesus, Interrupted
He has also made several guest appearances on National Public Radio (NPR) including the show Fresh Air in February 2008 to discuss his book God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question-Why We Suffer
Daniel B. Wallace, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts
wrote, “One almost gets the impression that he is encouraging the Chicken Littles in the Christian community to panic at data that they are simply not prepared to wrestle with”
If, as many here assert, the Bible is the “word of God”, then the Almighty God is the author and not some Palestinian peasants.
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