(December 17, 2011 at 2:45 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 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?
Well, by golly, it should be if it's one of those objective, eternal thingies that theists keep going on about.
Perhaps it's that G-C thinks that us "godless nits" are incapable of observing objective, eternal truth?
What rational explanation might account for that?