At the end of Bart Ehrman’s book, “Jesus, Interrupted” he does an amazing and rather unexpected thing. After spending hundreds of pages telling us why the Bible cannot be trusted as a guide in the …
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Disagreements Over Jesus and Christology in the Early Church
Another element that Dr. Ehrman brings up is the idea of whether an exalted picture of Jesus existed in the 1st century. The claim is that the Nicene Creeds and other creeds that elevate Jesus …
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Does Mark Incorrectly Quote 1 Samuel?
Who is it that David really went to talk to when he wanted some showbread because he was hungry? Who was it really? Dr. Ehrman says “Ah, ha! A contradiction is here between the Gospels …
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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?
In Dr. Ehrman’s book, Jesus, Interrupted, he spends a lot of time trying to show that the New Testament documents – particularly the Gospels – disagree with each other at various points. What is remarkable …
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Are the Differences between the Gospels Necessarily Contradictions?
Why are the Birth Narratives so Different? (I)
The question is why are the birth narratives so different, and are they ‘dueling banjos’? My response is no. There are three sorts of problems: macro, micro, and in between. The macro problem has to …
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Why are the birth narratives so different? (II)
Secondly, it takes a particular interpretation of the differences between Matthew and Luke to come up with a flat contradiction within the birth narratives. For example, you will hear Bart say things such as “Well …
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