Bart Ehrman destroys Christianity in under 12 minutes.

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How would you even know? You only have the attention span to watch a few minutes of a video before deciding you know enough about it to criticize. That doesn't put you in a good position to slam someone who learned multiple ancient languages so he could understand the bible.

Well let me put it this way: either you're being deliberately disingenuous, or wilfully ignorant. What Bart does is exaggerate things. He's very good at it, and the books that he writes are intended for sceptic audiences. He knows that when writing books there's much more money in that then there is in publishing academically sound critical works. I know because I've walked into the most popular Christian bookshops in Canberra, and asked if they stock anything at all written by Hurtado - and they don't! His books are not even damaging to Christianity really, and some (e.g. One God One Lord) are used academically as textbooks for New Testament studies. Therefore they're not "popular" like stuff written by Bart that can sell well in general book stores either.

Now I haven't read his books, but all I'm saying is that his argument that presupposes systemic alterations were made to NT writings over the first two centuries - a position he takes and stands by - has been totally discredited by other scholars. His arguments about pseudepigraphical authorship is not controversial (although he tries to paint it as being so), and no one really cares. This is because we have a core selection of books written by first-century authors (in fact almost all the NT writings were written in the first century), including 8 by a single author in the 50's (20-30 years after the death of Jesus). Why not watch him actually ague with an atheist about the existence of Jesus and Paul?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kENorS_piks

As you can see, he wipes the floor with the ill-informed prick. He even gets offended by the host's wilful ignorance.

So I tell you what, show me ONE, just ONE single scholar that agrees with Bart that the NT text went through systemic alteration in the second century?

I have see that video before and also read "Jesus Existed" Where as you don't have the attention span to watch a whole 12 minute video. So don't go pretending to be an expert on something you don't know anything about. I mean that happens on these forums on a daily basis, but it's particularly agregious when you proclaim so proudly that you didn't even bother to watch all of something and then proclaim yourself an expert.