[Philsworld]

Why do you enjoy accusing and implying that we use our salvation as a license to sin?

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Ravi

[Luircin]

Unproven. I could claim that YOU, Phil, have committed mass murder, but that doesn’t make it true.

Also, your obsession with the man is disturbing.

Also, that’s not license to sin.

[af_vet_1981]

Ravi

Bart Ehrman

Born October 5, 1955, Ehrman grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and attended Lawrence High School, where he was on the state champion debate team in 1973. He began studying the Bible, biblical theology, and biblical languages at Moody Bible Institute,[2] where he earned the school's three-year diploma in 1976.[3] He is a 1978 graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, where he received his bachelor's degree. He received his PhD (in 1985) and MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied textual criticism of the Bible, development of the New Testament canon and New Testament apocrypha under Bruce Metzger. Both baccalaureate and doctorate were conferred magna cum laude.[4]

Ehrman was raised in an Anglican family and was originally a member of the Episcopal Church of the United States; as a teenager, he became a born-again evangelical.[2][5][6] In Misquoting Jesus, he recounts being certain in his youthful enthusiasm that God had inspired the wording of the Bible and protected its texts from all error.[2][5] His desire to understand the original words of the Bible led him to enroll in the Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College, where he received a three-year diploma and a bachelor's degree. He later became a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied ancient languages, particularly Koine Greek, ...

Bruce Metzger was his doctoral advisor ...