Evidence: The Gathering

[Randy Carson]

If you want to know what Jesus said and did, you can learn these things by reading the gospels. Have you done this recently?

I want to know what the "historical Jesus" said and did. Not the fairy tale one you can find in the gospels.
The same "historical Jesus" that Ehrman and others accept existed.

What does Ehrman say about the historical value of the gospels, poca?

"Whatever one thinks of them as inspired scripture, they can be seen and used as significant historical sources. With this major comment in view, what can we say about the Gospels and their witness to the life of the historical Jesus?

"Once it is conceded that the Gospels can and should be treated as historical sources, no different from other historical sources infused with their authors' biases, it starts to become clear why historians have almost universally agreed that whatever else one might say about him, Jesus of Nazareth lived in first-century Palestine and was crucified by the Prefect of Judea. (Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist?, 74-75)