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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in
the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)
By Bart D. Ehrman
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061173936/Jesus_Interrupted/index.aspx
from a wabe radio interview
" Students taking a college-level
Bible course for the first time often find it surprising that we don't know who
wrote most of the books of the New Testament. How could that be? Don't these
books all have the authors' names attached to them? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John,
the letters of Paul, 1 and 2 Peter, and 1, 2 and 3 John? How could the wrong
names be attached to books of Scripture? Isn't this the Word of God? If someone
wrote a book claiming to be Paul while knowing full well that he wasn't
Paul—isn't that lying? Can Scripture contain lies? ". This is a quote from ,
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We
Don't Know About Them)
By Bart D. Ehrman
mark (first gospel) my god my god why have you forsaken me
Luke write about 15 years after mark writes acts.. forgive them for they know
not what they do... god into your hands I commend my spirit
Coptic apocalypse of peter.. the Gnostic view that the message of Christ was
about knowing the truth of who they were
some early Christians did not consider the death of Christ as important but what
mattered were the secret teachings of Jesus.
The divinity of god is only found in john
a lot of Jews talking about the end coming .. John the Baptist .. Paul .. the
dead sea scrolls ....
we still wait for Jesus to come back
novels of the apocalypse ...
left behind series ..
how long must we wait for the end of time yet do nothing ???
[edit] Qualifying agnosticism
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume contended that meaningful
statements about the universe are always qualified by some degree of doubt.[6]
The fallibility of human beings means that they cannot obtain absolute certainty
except in trivial cases where a statement is true by definition (as in, "all
bachelors are unmarried" or "all triangles have three angles"). All rational
statements that assert a factual claim about the universe that begin "I believe
that ...." are simply shorthand for, "Based on my knowledge, understanding, and
interpretation of the prevailing evidence, I tentatively believe that...." For
instance, when one says, "I believe that Lee Harvey Oswald shot John F.
Kennedy," one is not asserting an absolute truth but a tentative belief based on
interpretation of the assembled evidence. Even though one may set an alarm clock
prior to the following day, believing that waking up will be possible, that
belief is tentative, tempered by a small but finite degree of doubt (the earth
might be destroyed, or one might die before the alarm goes off).
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