Speaking with The Huffington Post, United Methodist pastor and biblical scholar Ben Witherington III (who is usually very critical of Ehrman’s works) praised the book and thanked Ehrman for writing it.
Yet another Christian circle jerk.
Wow 3 Christians agree that their faith is true. How the fuck did you imagine such trash could convinced anyone who isn’t already convinced without evidence?
Take a tidbit like this moronic kind of logic:
Many specific points by Ehrman concentrate on what may be regarded as the ‘embarrassments’ and ‘failures’ of the various depictions of Jesus Christ found in the gospels and the works of Paul which point to an account based on a real person,
It does nothing of the sort, that’s like saying telling a lie with holes in it, is an indication it’s true.
Or that people would probably line up their lies better if they lied.
Well surprise they don’t, and that’s actually a way police often detect criminals.
Trash like this is decidedly insulting to people with intelligence. But of course, that’s not the people they make their money on.
Do you care that Israel is destroying lives in Gaza?
Well I do, and similarly I care that false religions are destroying lives and families with superstition all over the world.
And the only kind of religion there is, is false religion, because if it were true it would not be religion.
You’d be kicked out of highschool debate at this point, but okay.
Did you actually read what I said? Jesus being a real historic person and not being a son of the God or whatever Christians believe him to be is not mutually exclusive.
This is not the way to be critical about Christianity(or anything, really). If anything, you’re making it worse.
Did you actually read what I said? Jesus being a real historic person and not being a son of the God or whatever Christians believe him to be is not mutually exclusive.
There still isn’t any evidence of his existence either way. And believing he existed without being the son of God, kind of makes even less sense than if you were actually a Christian. Because being a delusional Christian has it’s own inherent logic.
Believing his existence despite the lack of evidence without being a Christian doesn’t make the least bit of sense.
It’s beyond reason, it’s like saying you believe in god, you just don’t believe he has any powers. It simply doesn’t make any sense from a rational standpoint.
As I stated early on, it’s as naive as believing the Greek demigods were real. They have somewhat similar stories, and similar lack of evidence of being real. But you might as well say they were probably real, they just weren’t demigods.
It’s also akin to believe some guy named Santa Claus live on the North Pole, he is just not bringing gifts every Christmas.
You’d be kicked out of highschool debate at this point, but okay.
Based on what? Religious fanaticism maybe? I don’t see how Christian intolerance should be a good point against me in this debate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did_Jesus_Exist%3F_(Ehrman_book)
Yet another Christian circle jerk.
Wow 3 Christians agree that their faith is true. How the fuck did you imagine such trash could convinced anyone who isn’t already convinced without evidence?
Take a tidbit like this moronic kind of logic:
It does nothing of the sort, that’s like saying telling a lie with holes in it, is an indication it’s true.
Or that people would probably line up their lies better if they lied.
Well surprise they don’t, and that’s actually a way police often detect criminals.
Trash like this is decidedly insulting to people with intelligence. But of course, that’s not the people they make their money on.
I’m not Christian and I couldn’t care less if Jesus really was a guy.
Your obsession over this is pretty weird. This is not something that scholars are actively debating over.
Ehrman is an agnostic atheist and one of the most renowned experts in the field of theology. He’s definitely not a Christian circle jerk.
I can fully understand that you don’t agree on this. But you can’t be this upset and this much and
Guess the majority of experts who devoted their lives to this issue are less intelligent than you then.
Do you care that Israel is destroying lives in Gaza?
Well I do, and similarly I care that false religions are destroying lives and families with superstition all over the world.
And the only kind of religion there is, is false religion, because if it were true it would not be religion.
Why don’t you care?
You’d be kicked out of highschool debate at this point, but okay.
Did you actually read what I said? Jesus being a real historic person and not being a son of the God or whatever Christians believe him to be is not mutually exclusive.
This is not the way to be critical about Christianity(or anything, really). If anything, you’re making it worse.
There still isn’t any evidence of his existence either way. And believing he existed without being the son of God, kind of makes even less sense than if you were actually a Christian. Because being a delusional Christian has it’s own inherent logic.
Believing his existence despite the lack of evidence without being a Christian doesn’t make the least bit of sense.
It’s beyond reason, it’s like saying you believe in god, you just don’t believe he has any powers. It simply doesn’t make any sense from a rational standpoint.
As I stated early on, it’s as naive as believing the Greek demigods were real. They have somewhat similar stories, and similar lack of evidence of being real. But you might as well say they were probably real, they just weren’t demigods.
It’s also akin to believe some guy named Santa Claus live on the North Pole, he is just not bringing gifts every Christmas.
Based on what? Religious fanaticism maybe? I don’t see how Christian intolerance should be a good point against me in this debate.