Bart Ehrman
Bart Denton Ehrman
Bart Denton Ehrman was born October 5, 1955 and as an American New Testament scholar has focused on the textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity.
Believes
Bart seems to believe the Bible is just a human book, not the inerrant word of God. He sees it filled with errors and even contradictions. That would seem to be reasonable because he is said to identify as an agnostic atheist who doubts the existence of God and does not believe in a supernatural being who intervenes in the world.
His early views have been labeled as evangelical but like the story of ancient Buddha he questioned God's existence because of the trauma that comes with seeing the "suffering" in the world.
He also does not seem to believe the modern perception that Jesus is divine as the Son of God and believes that Jesus consider himself "divine".
Bart Ehrman does believe that Jesus was crucified by the Romans as an historical fact about Jesus. He also seems to believe that Jesus claim to be "King of the Jews," somehow threatened Roman rule.[1]
From an academic or scientific point of view Bart thinks there is no "100 proof" in the sense of scientific or irrefutable historical certainty for Jesus's existence, as there are no contemporary documents or physical evidence from his time.
However, the overwhelming majority of historians and scholars conclude that a historical Jesus likely existed, based on evidence from later Christian and non-Christian sources, even though the details of his life are debated.
- ↑ While it clearly threatened the financial position of the moneychangers and the hierarchy of the Pharisees within their system of Corban I find no evidence that it immediately threated Roman rule if it remained in Judea and Pontius Pilate who was the Roman representative did not seem to want him crucified. But if the righteousness of the Corban of Christ was understood by modern Christians and pursued in faith the power of all institutions that seek to rule over mankind would be undermined by the Gospel of the kingdom. Ironically, to reach that understanding of truth their needs to be "suffering" in the world.