RE: Bart D. Ehrman - The Bane of Fundies!
November 4, 2010 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2010 at 8:02 pm by solja247.)
Quote:Perhaps I overestimated our resident bible-thumpers?
The gospels perhaps does have some exaggeration of certain stories. The Gospels did not record everything Jesus said or did as Jonn says:
Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
John is a book concerned more about theology than history anyways.
What Erham is talking about is a Biblical Maximalist who thinks the Bible does not have any flaws and is 100% perfect. However, no human books are like that, even the Bible
Its ok to have doubt, just dont let that doubt become the answers.
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
You dont hate God, you hate the church game.
"God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed." Saint Augustine
Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him. -Martin H. Fischer
