Evidence: The Gathering

[abaris]

Right, Randy, you're not the picky choosy guy, are you? Ehrman is a world class expert in your own words, yet you only give us what coincides with you opinion. I wonder why that is?

He also wrote the book forged and I quote.

There were a lot of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good

Which is an accurate description of the work ethics of the time and an accepted truth among historians.

Ehrman again:

Thus Christians aiming to authorize views they wanted others to accept wrote in the name of the Apostles, fabricating, falsifying and forging documents .... No one would take the Gospel of Jehoshaphat seriously. If you wanted someone to read it, you called yourself Peter. Or Thomas. Or James. In other words, you lied about who you really were

These are the main points of Ehrman's book "Forged": At least 11 of the 27 New Testament books are forgeries. The New Testament books attributed to Jesus’ disciples could not have been written by them because they were illiterate. Many of the New Testament’s forgeries were manufactured by early Christian leaders trying to settle theological feuds.

And these claim actually are in accordance with what the scientific community knows about the time and the work ethics of authors in general.