(July 25, 2015 at 6:57 am)abaris Wrote:(July 24, 2015 at 9:34 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Now all you need to do is open some books, learn a few ancient languages, spend 20 years studying the texts...and then, maybe, you will be in a position to even attempt to refute Ehrman & Co.
But you don't have 20 years, do you?
Now you might just explain why your beating Ehrman like the literal dead horse. Is it because he claims to be an atheist and think that may earn him some brownie points among us unbelievers? Or is it because he's about the only one actually fitting your narrative? He's still a theologian, not a historian, and it shows in his work.
Nope. He is a historian.
http://religion.unc.edu/_people/full-tim...ty/ehrman/