Why should it make any difference whether Ehrman or any other scholar of scripture is a believer or not? Doesn't the holy word stand on its own merit? Isn't the truth still the truth no matter what a person believes?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
