RE: Bart D. Ehrman - The Bane of Fundies!
October 31, 2010 at 9:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2010 at 9:40 pm by Minimalist.)
Ooh, thanks for bringing this back up, Skeptic. I missed G-C's pointless reply.
G-C - let's get something clear. Ehrman is a world class scholar and expert in ancient languages.
You are a guy who believes in a talking snake. The fact that you cannot understand Ehrman's point is not a surprise. My dog does not understand how my cell phone works, either.
The issue remains - in spite of your efforts to derail - that 3 authors place the cleaning of the temple at the END of their story while one author ( we do not know their real names ) puts it at the beginning.
You could walk from Timbuktu to Djakarta and name every fucking village along the way and it would do nothing to refute the point which Ehrman made. Your bible contradicts itself by putting two incompatible stories in and claiming that both are true.
I think I'll begin looking for another passage. You won't like this next one either.
Lost Christianities is great. Misquoting Jesus was a bit technical but it got going at the end. Unfortunately, xtians get lost in that whole discussion of how the early copyists fucked up the whole damn thing. They HATE that.
G-C - let's get something clear. Ehrman is a world class scholar and expert in ancient languages.
You are a guy who believes in a talking snake. The fact that you cannot understand Ehrman's point is not a surprise. My dog does not understand how my cell phone works, either.
The issue remains - in spite of your efforts to derail - that 3 authors place the cleaning of the temple at the END of their story while one author ( we do not know their real names ) puts it at the beginning.
You could walk from Timbuktu to Djakarta and name every fucking village along the way and it would do nothing to refute the point which Ehrman made. Your bible contradicts itself by putting two incompatible stories in and claiming that both are true.
I think I'll begin looking for another passage. You won't like this next one either.
Quote:Ehrman's other books are a great read as well besides Jesus, Interrupted. Lost Christianities is a good read, but more scholarly and dense than Jesus, Interrupted.
Lost Christianities is great. Misquoting Jesus was a bit technical but it got going at the end. Unfortunately, xtians get lost in that whole discussion of how the early copyists fucked up the whole damn thing. They HATE that.
