Your so called contradictions are actually just extreme ignorance on your part. You really do not know what you are reading.
There is no contradiction in the Christmas story. Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the Magi visited...Herod got jealous. An Gabriel came and told Joseph to flee to Egypt and they did. After that Herod died, they returned to Nazareth.
It's REALLY simple and the Bible spells it out. Each Gospel writer tells a part of the story. Your problem is you don't want to try and piece it together or for some reason you think God owes you the full story in chronological order in one book.
There is no contradictions in the crucifixion...just your ignorance at how the events unfolded.
Part of your problem with Paul is you have no clue about the original Greek and you are in complete ignorance of the context. It's not a mystery to most bible scholars...and IF I were a more patient man and actually thought you would listen...I would explain it...but I see an agenda from you more than a willingness to learn.
And again...you are VERY wrong. Every scholar does not know it. I can name a hundred of the best Biblical scholars in history who would fight you with Apologetics for even saying they think that. You are making a false statement. The only "scholars" I know of that think the way you do are very liberal and seek to undermine the bible at any turn.
And citing Bart Ehrman IS PROOF that one can be a "biblical scholar" and not know what the heck they are talking about. Because people like him look at the Bible with an agenda...instead of looking to what God has to say. They come into the debate with the attitude that the bible is wrong...that somehow they are smarter than God. Bart Ehrman is not a believer...and therefore does not have the Spirit of God in him...and thus: Is blind.
1 Cor 1:26, 27 - "For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;"
Romans 1:21, 22 - "For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools"
So tell me,. then, how it is that in one place, they go directly to Egypt, but in another they go home to Galilee.
There is no contradictions in the crucifixion
One Gospel records a silent Jesus. Mark, I believe, has the despairing Jesus saying "Why hast thou forsaken me?" Yet, he is recorded elsewhere not as despairing, but as blessing everyone and telling the thief hanging next to him "Today thous shalt be with me in Paradise."
You cannot harmonize those accounts, or you get a story that is incompatible with the story any of the Gospel writers told.
Every scholar does not know it.
The Vast majority do, those with no agenda. This is taught in all the leading seminaries. Simple textual analysis shows it very clearly.
Because people like him look at the Bible with an agenda
False. Professor Ehrman started out as a fundamentalist, evangelical, Bible literalist. Then his examination of the Bible and his studies at places like Moody Bible Institute led him away from that view. He is today one of the foremost authorities on the New Testament.