The Qur’an makes a very interesting claim: ‘God has sealed them [the Jews] in their disbelief, so they believe only a little – and because they disbelieved and uttered a terrible slander against Mary, and said, ‘We have killed the… Read More ›
New Testament scholarship
Does a person need to “have the Holy Spirit” in order to interpret the Bible?
Source: The Bart Ehrman Blog: The History & Literature of Early Christianity Does a person need to “have the Holy Spirit” in order to interpret the Bible? And does the Gospel of John give a historically accurate accounting of the… Read More ›
Gospel Inflation
A Christian minister asked a really interesting question on Twitter: ‘What are we to make of the fact that Jesus refers to God as Father roughly 170 times while the Old Testament does only about 11?’ I suggested a take on… Read More ›
Jesus and Paul Compared and Contrasted
reblogged from Dr Ehrman’s Blog I have been talking about the relationship of Jesus’ proclamation of the coming Kingdom of God to Paul’s preaching about the importance of the death and resurrection of Jesus. In the previous post I argued that… Read More ›
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“Once the biblical history had been divested of dogma, the Christ proclaimed by the Church seemed in unavoidable conflict with Jesus himself. There was a manifest contradiction between what historical investigation discovered about Jesus of Nazareth and what the Church… Read More ›
On the historical reliability of the Gospel of John by Professor Christopher Tuckett of Oxford University
For interested readers here is a balanced assessment of the historical reliability of the Gospel of John by one of the worlds most respected New Testament scholars. His view is probably shared by the overwhelming majority of specialists in the… Read More ›
A very personal post about being an enemy of the Christian faith.
This fascinating post just uploaded on Facebook by Bart D Ehrman (an American New Testament scholar) discusses the problem of forgeries in the Bible and being seen as an “enemy” of the Christian faith. _____________________________________________ This will be a very… Read More ›
