Bart Ehrman

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[edit] April 9, 2009 Nailing

• book: "Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)"

• says the Bible contradicts itself, so Jonah swallowed the whale!? Oh, please!

• scholars have known for a long time that
  • books written by people who didn't write them

• standard doctrines of Christianity
  • divitinity of christ
  • trinity

• Gospel of John
  • Jesus
• Saint Peter

• he knows the early Jews better than the early Jews

• the early interpretation of Jesus is the Jews' fault

• did not see Jesus as a divine being, but as a human being

• if it talks like a duck, walks like a duck and raises the dead like a duck ...

• Jesus is portrayed as a human in early Christianity
  • Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (only divine in John)

• God is not a fan of puns
  • one of the seven deadly sins

• has a problem with conflicting versions of Jesus' crucifixion
  • he is nitpicking

• in Mark he doesn't know why
  • why hath thou forsaken me?
• in Luke not in agony, more concerned with the people watching
  • father into your hands

• Dr. Colbert tells
  • 4 different blind men stumble around the jungle and fall into a pit, where an elephant has already fallen
    • they all declare the elephant to be different than the others; one thinks it's a wall, another thinks it's a tree, the third thinks it's a snake and the last one thinks it's a spear
• Ehrman missed the point that Jesus is an elephant and each of the 4 men can only see part of Him