How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee

by Bart D. Ehrman

But where did these people get their information, what makes them authorities, and why should you think they are right?

who was writing twenty to thirty years after Jesus’s death.

The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death.

After Jesus died, his followers came to believe he was raised from the dead, and they saw it as their mission to convert people to the belief that the death and resurrection of Jesus were the death and resurrection of God’s messiah and that by believing in his death and resurrection a person could have eternal life.

In fact, the Gospels disagree on nearly every detail in their resurrection narratives.