Jul 30, 2025
There's an interesting new episode of Misquoting Jesus out, where Bart D. Ehrman talks about how Paul actually viewed sin and the significance of baptism - and how it's not actually the same as what most modern Christians believe.
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There's an interesting new episode of Misquoting Jesus out, where Bart D. Ehrman talks about how Paul actually viewed sin and the significance of baptism - and how it's not actually the same as what most modern Christians believe.
What did the Bible originally say?
"It is one thing to say that the originals were inspired, but the reality is that we don't have the originals - so saying they were inspired doesn't help me much, unless I can reconstruct the originals."
"Not only do we not have the originals, we don't have the first copies of the originals. We don't even have copies of the copies of the originals, or copies of the copies of the copies of the originals. What we have are copies made later - much later. In most instances, they are copies made many centuries later. And these copies all differ from one another, in many thousands of places."
-- Bart D. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus
So I've been listening to a podcast recently and the guy criticised doomsday preachers for using the bible like a jigsaw, taking one quote from one book and sticking it with another unrelated quote from another book to solve some sort of secret puzzle. He said no one would read any other book like that. And like that's valid and all but I just think it's funny because that's exactly what ASOIAF fans do while waiting for Winds
“Misquoting Jesus is the best Bible examination I’ve read in a while. For those who are interested in the subject, I would also recommend Richard Elliott Friedman’s classic Who Wrote the Bible?, which concentrates on the Bible’s first five books (the Torah or Pentateuch) and introduces the basics of the Documentary Hypothesis in equally easy-to-read language.” - Mark Czerniec
In this episode of Misquoting Jesus, Dr. Bart D. Erhman talks about how he came to realize that the gospels aren't pure historical fact, discusses the difference between myth, legend, and history, and talks about how we can tell where the Gospels (or any document that seems to record history) might actually contains real history, or whether it contains something else.
I strongly suggest watching the whole thing, but here's a summary of the steps to separate fact from myth and legend that Bart Ehrman talks about:
Look for multiple independent attestation - corroboration without collaboration. Determine whether it's likely one or more source borrowed something from another (or whether they all borrow from another source), or whether their claims are more likely to be independent.
Look for mention of events that don't quite align with what the writer wants you to believe and take away. These are more likely to be historical because the writer probably wouldn't have made them up.
Look out for anachronisms - things that didn't exist or happen at the time the narrative is supposedly taking place.
Textual criticism explained.
Full Video - https://youtu.be/H8EVuuadoeY In this short from Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman, he discusses the preservation of God's words
Dr. Bart Ehrman on his journey through Biblical analysis.