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Bart Ehrman destroys Christianity in under 12 minutes.
RE: Bart Ehrman destroys Christianity in under 12 minutes.
(June 30, 2016 at 1:53 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:


That's a good video, it proves my point. Nothing Bart learned through scholarship caused him to de-convert. I think it's laughable that people here, especially people like Min, continue to believe they have a solid grasp on scholarship all based on stuff they don't understand to begin with.

(June 30, 2016 at 2:04 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Still passing judgement on arguments that you haven't read, eh Aractus?  I'm not surprised.

I don't need to, I've read the responses from academic scholars like Hurtado to his works. Hurtado's book One God One Lord was praised by the academic community as being balanced. Silberman & Finkelstein's book "Bible Unearthed" was similarly praised by scholars (despite it's deliberately provocative title, it's a well balanced academic grade book), and it destroys any possibility of an Exodus or Conquest of Canaan. I'll quote Silberman here (from his website):

Neil Silberman Wrote:After completing a series of books about the history and politics of archaeology in the Middle East, I teamed up with my good friend and colleague Israel Finkelstein to see what we could accomplish in the re-construction of modern views of biblical history.  The result was The Bible Unearthed (2001) which got a lot of attention, but I’m not sure it changed many minds– particularly minds that are hardwired to believe that THEY are the authentic heirs of the biblical tradition.

Academic resources are there if you want to use them. If you want to use Ehrman's material in an argument against Christians they'll just tell you what I've told you - it's not of academic standard, the stuff he waffles on about in his popular books is either inconsequential to faith or is outside his particular area of expertise. And again, that's not "my criticism" it's distilled from the criticism he has received from his fellow critical scholars regarding his books such as "Forged". And again, none one else in the world - not a single other scholar that I know of claims the NT underwent systemic alteration; which is a claim made wholesale by Bart and he can't even tell you what he thinks was altered in particular.
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RE: Bart Ehrman destroys Christianity in under 12 minutes. - by Aractus - June 30, 2016 at 2:29 am

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