(August 8, 2020 at 11:37 am)Ranjr Wrote: For me, as a youth trying to be Christian, the Bible falsified itself. The more I read it, along with broader contexts of history and literature, the more difficult it became to take as anything other than highly contrived fiction.
As a young evangelical, fundamentalist Christian, I was deeply disturbed by all of those (apparent) contradictions, but, I simply could not connect the dots. It was not until decades later (and, unfortunately, in the last decade) that the distinguished and eminent scholar, Professor Bart D. Ehrman, finally, cleared-up, once and for all, my misunderstandings of Jesus and the New Testament texts.
