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Welcome to the Ehrman Project

Dr. Bart Ehrman is raising significant questions about the reliability of the Bible. In an engaging way, he is questioning the credibility of Christianity. His arguments are not new, which he readily admits. Numerous Biblical scholars profoundly disagree with his findings. This site provides responses to Dr. Ehrman's provocative conclusions.

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What is ‘Inerrancy’?
How Did the New Testament Canon Develop?
Are the New Testament Manuscripts Reliable? (I)
Are the New Testament Manuscripts Reliable? (II)
Can We Trust the Bible to Tell Us the Truth?
Did Jesus Claim to be God?
Did Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Actually Author the Gospel Accounts?
Is there a central message throughout all 66 unique books of the Bible?
Why Does a ‘Loving God’ Permit Evil in our World?
Why Did Certain Texts Make It into the Canon?
How can We Trust the Canon Created by the Early Church?
Does an Increase of Gospel Miracles Help the Legend Theory?
What are some passages you interpret differently than Dr. Ehrman? (Matthew 24:36)
Why Does God Allow His Creation to Have Free Will?
With No Scripture in Place, What Controlled Doctrine in the 1st Century?
Who Wrote the Gospels?
Can Finite Beings Comprehend the Word of an Infinite God?
How can We Reconcile the Old Testament God and the New Testament God?
Why Does Evil Exist?
Couldn’t It All Have Been a Conspiracy?
How Do We Explain the Bible’s 400,000 Errors?
What are Some Passages You Interpret Differently than Dr. Ehrman? (1 John 5:7-8)
Aren’t the Number of Textual Variants Subjective?
Is Modern Morality Superior to Biblical Morality?
Which Day was Jesus Crucified?
On Quirinius’ Census
What are Some Passages You Interpret Differently than Dr. Ehrman? ( Mark 16:9-20)
How Does Authorship Affect Inspiration?
Will there be Freewill in Heaven?
How do you Explain the ‘Long Ending of Mark’?
The Issue of Oral Tradition
Is the Bible Historically Reliable?
What Answers Does the Bible Give for the ‘Problem of Evil’?
To Avoid Evil, Why Not Prevent Sin?
Aren’t there 400,000 Variants or Errors in the New Testament? (I)
Aren’t there 400,000 Variants or Errors in the New Testament? (II)
Morality and the ‘Problem of Evil’
Disagreements Over Jesus and Christology in the Early Church
Why the Discrepancies Among the Resurrection Accounts?
Does Mark Incorrectly Quote 1 Samuel?
What Advice Do you Have for Students Enrolling in Dr. Ehrman’s Class?
What Role Do our Presuppositions Play in our Worldviews?
Do the Gospels Disagree with One Another?
Are the Differences between the Gospels Necessarily Contradictions?
Aren’t There Only Two Nights Between Friday and Sunday?
Why are the Birth Narratives so Different? (I)
Why are the birth narratives so different? (II)
Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Why Does the God of the Old Testament Seem so Irrational?
Is Jesus Recorded as a Failed Apocalypticist?
What Advice would you Give to Students Taking Dr. Ehrman’s Class?
Weren’t There Just Varieties and Alternatives of Early Christianity with No Real Orthodoxy?
Don’t all the Numerous Translations Prove the Bible’s Unreliability?
Have you Personally Experienced Suffering and Evil? How Have you Dealt with these Injustices?
Did Scribes Doctor the Manuscripts?
How Do Scribes’ Alterations Square with Inerrancy
Did Scribes Intentionally Doctor Scripture?
How do you Explain the High Number of Variants Found in the New Testament? (I)
How do you Explain the High Number of Variants Found in the New Testament? (II)
Is the God of the Old Testament Incompatible with the God of the New Testament?
Does Academia Lead to Losing your Faith
On the Chronology of Jesus’ Last Week
Dr. Witherington’s Personal Journey in Biblical Criticism
How Many Manuscripts of the New Testament do we Have?
Is the Suffering in the World Incompatible with the Bible’s Loving, Ominpotent God?
On Gnosticism
‘Problem of Evil’ or ‘Argument from Evil’?
What is the Bible’s Answer for the ‘Problem of Suffering’?
In the Old Testament, why does God Command or Condone Violence?
Dr. Ehrman’s Influence on Kruger
Can we Make Sense of Suffering without a God?
Are the Bible’s Errors Part of God’s Plan?
How do we Handle the Problem Texts in the New Testament?
Difference Between a Devotional Way of Reading Scripture and the Historical Critical Method
How Might We Handle Suffering in a World Without a God?
Does the Bible Give an Adequate Explanation for the Problem of Evil?
What if I’m Unsure, and just Searching?
The Influence of Worldview on Morality
Is it Helpful for People to Know the Issues Raised in ‘Jesus, Interrupted’?
Have you Personally Experienced Evil in your Life?
What Advice would you Give to Students Taking Dr. Ehrman’s Class?
What Advice do You Give Students Encountering these Arguments for the First Time?
Are Historical Christian Writings Fairly Evaluated?
What Advice Do you Have for College Students Entering the Academic Realm?
Have You Personally Dealt with Unjust Suffering in the World?
How Have you Maintained your Beliefs in the Realm of Scholarship?
What is your Reaction/Response to the Textual Critics Exposing the Issues?
What is Your Current Work in Biblical Textual Criticism?

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