The truth according to Bart D. Ehrman

[Angrboda]

Is your bookstore or library not adequately stocked, Daniel?

I've read Misquoting Jesus and substantial parts of Forged, and find that you are misrepresenting his work.

Not surprising as your argument appears to rest on ignorance, bad scholarship, and the typical healthy dose of wishful thinking which typically infects Christian thinking.

If you want to assess Ehrman's arguments, I suggest you get off your ass, get out your wallet, and do the actual research.

(For what it's worth, while I enjoy Ehrman's work, I would add the usual caution about getting all your information from one, potentially biased source. However, from what I understand, possibly largely from Ehrman himself, is that there is nothing controversial about Ehrman's claims outside of those leveled by rabid fundamentalist and other uncritical and disingenous apologists who can't abide by the truth if it inadvertently slaughters their sacred cow. In addition to Ehrman, I have Metzger's new edition on the New Testament [largely pilloried by the fundie community as Metzger chose Ehrman to assist him in the long needed update of the work], Father Brown, and Isaac Asimov, as well as a handful of more specialized volumes. Alas, studying the Christians' magic book is not high on my priorities these days, so I've read little of each.)