lol you think ehrman doesn't know what he's talking about because he says the gospels are not reliable history. Only Christian historians with a bias know what they're talking about. That's rich. :)
Let's assume I am deism's loudest proponent. I make a bold declaration and I make it not on dogmatism or opinion or the Bible or other holy book, etc. but on one thing: cold hard observation of what I see going on in the world. My declaration: God doesn't give a damn about you. He doesn't care...
Now why did I know this was going to be a Christian article? The article is focused mainly on oral tradition--as if the apostles could hear Jesus speak the sermon on the mounts ONCE and then could remember it nearly verbatim to pass on to other converts like a GD game of telephone. I don't buy...
Every Christian has their own personal opinion/bias about who Jesus was is, what he accomplished and how he works today, all of it based on gospels that were written by strangers who didn't hear Jesus speak word 1 when they were writing 50-100 years later and using no sources that we know of for...
And the kicker is Ephesians is a forgery written by someone else who then claimed to be paul. This is the consensus of the majority of secular Biblical scholars. So Christianity's central doctrine "justification by faith alone" is not even paul--it is a complete stranger.
You nailed it, CG. The silliest thing about all this is the idea we owe a debt to God for our "sins". The Christian god demands we forgive our neighbor unconditionally, yet somehow he is too impotent to do the same for us. That's why the Christians also invented this "God is a god of love BUT he...
And what, pray tell, does all the rest have to do with Jesus hiding the secrets of salvation....eh, never mind. Ever feel like you're on a merry-go-round?