Bart D. Ehrman
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October 05, 1955
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“There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.”
― God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
― God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
“One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all of this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf. For reasons I will explore in the conclusion, pastors are, as a rule, reluctant to teach what they learned about the Bible in seminary.”
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
― Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
“Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.”
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