Bart D. Ehrman on Knowledge
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Bart D. Ehrman, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Bart D. Ehrman, entry #21216: "Even though Jesus may be the only miracleworking Son of God that people know about today, there were lots of people like this in the ancient world."
Attributed to Bart D. Ehrman, entry #174242: "Very few people who devote their lives to studying the historical Jesus actually want to find a Jesus who is completely removed from our own time. What people want ... is relevanc…"
3 Quotes by Bart D. Ehrman on Knowledge
"Even though Jesus may be the only miracleworking Son of God that people know about today, there were lots of people like this in the ancient world."
"Very few people who devote their lives to studying the historical Jesus actually want to find a Jesus who is completely removed from our own time. What people want ... is relevance."
"One of the most amazing and perplexing features of mainstream Christianity is that seminarians who learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes appear to forget all about it when it comes time for them to be pastors. They are taught critical approaches to Scripture, they learn about the discrepancies and contradictions, they discover all sorts of historical errors and mistakes, they come to realize that it is difficult to know whether Moses existed or what Jesus actually said and did, they find that there are other books that were at one time considered canonical but that ultimately did not become part of Scripture , they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous , that in fact we don't have the original copies of any of the biblical books but only copies made centuries later, all of which have been altered. They learn all this, and yet when they enter church ministry they appear to put it back on the shelf."