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Hedonistforlife Bart Ehrman quotes Hedonistforlife quotes » Bart Ehrman quotes Hedonistforlife Quotes About:  Frederick Winslow Taylor   Work   Enthusiasm   Efficiency   John D Rockefeller   Ignorance   Poverty   Alvin Boyd Kuhn   Anton Lavey   Words Of Wisdom   Robert Collier   Hard Work   Sacrifice   Reward   Beliefs   Facts   Truth   Integrity   Bart Ehrman   Bible   Errors   Christianity   Judaism   Questioning   Textual Criticism   Malcolm X   Teachers And Teaching   Black People   Possessions   Reputation   Influence   Thorstein Veblen   Jobs   Goals   Positivity   Unity   World   Peace   Confucius   Friends   Character   Culture   Goodness   Ragnard Redbeard   Being Free   Religion   Professor James Smalls   Motivation   Economics  Sorted by: New | Most Popular Total: 7 Quotes 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 (for example, other Gospels and Apocalypses), they come to recognize that a good number of the books of the Bible are pseudonymous (for example, written in the name of an apostle by someone else), 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. 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail What is one to make of Psalm 137, one of the most beautiful Psalms, which starts with the memorable lines ''By the rivers of Babylon - there we sat down and there we wept, when we remembered Zion.'' Here is a powerful reflection by a faithful Israelite who longs to return to Jerusalem, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians. But his praise of God, and of his holy city, takes a vicious turn at the end, when he plots his revenge on God's enemies: ''Happy shall they be who take your [Babylonian] little ones, and dash them against the rock.'' Knocking the brains out of the Babylonian babies in retaliation for what their father-soldiers did? Is this in the Bible? 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes   Bible quotes   God quotes   Cruelty quotes   Textual Criticism quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail When Noah takes the animals on the ark, does he take seven pairs of all the ''clean'' animals, as Genesis 7:2 states, or just two pairs, as Genesis 7:9-10 indicates? 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes   Bible quotes   Textual Criticism quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail Some things don't go as planned. What I actually did learn at Princeton led me to change my mind about the Bible. I did not change my mind willingly - I went down kicking and screaming. I prayed (lots) about it, I wrestled (strenuously) with it, I resisted it with all my might. But at the same time I thought that if I was truly commited to God, I also had to be fully committed to the truth. And it became clear to me over a long period of time that my former views of the Bible as the inerrant revelation from God were flat-out wrong. My choice was either to hold on to views that I had come to realize were in error or to follow where I believed the truth was leading me. In the end, it was no choice. If something was true, it was true; if not, not. 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes   Bible quotes   Be True To Yourself quotes   Integrity quotes   Acceptance quotes   Errors quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail In the book of Exodus, God tells Moses, ''I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name 'The LORD' [= Yahweh] I did not make myself known to them'' (Exodus 6:3). How does this square with what is found earlier, in Genesis, where God does make himself known to Abraham as The LORD: ''Then he [God] said to him [Abraham], 'I am The LORD [= Yahweh] who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans''' (Genesis 15:7)? 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes   Bible quotes   Errors quotes   Judaism quotes   Christianity quotes   Questioning quotes   Textual Criticism quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail Consider one of my all-time favorite passages, the description of the ten plagues that Moses brought down on the heads of the Egyptians in order to compel Pharaoh to ''let my people go.'' The fifth plague was a pestilence that killed ''all of the livestock of the Egyptians'' (Exodus 9:5). How is it, then, that a few days later the seventh plague, of hail, was to destroy all of the Egyptian livestock in the fields (Exodus 9:21-22)? What livestock? 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes   Bible quotes   Errors quotes   Christianity quotes   Judaism quotes   Questioning quotes   Textual Criticism quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail One of my favorite apparent discrepancies (I read John for years without realizing how strange this one is) comes in Jesus' ''Farewell Discourse,'' the last address that Jesus delivers to his disciples, at his last meal with them, which takes up all of chapters 13 to 17 in the Gospel according to John. In John 13:36, Peter says to Jesus, ''Lord, where are you going?'' A few verses later Thomas says, ''Lord, we do not know where you are going'' (John 14:5). And then, a few minutes later, at the same meal, Jesus upbraids his disciples, saying, ''Now I am going to the one who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?''' (John 16:5). Either Jesus had a very short attention span or there is something strange going on with the sources for these chapters, creating an odd kind of disconnect. 1 up, 0 down  Bart Ehrman quotes  | added by: hedonistforlife  Bart Ehrman quotes   Bible quotes   Errors quotes   Christianity quotes   Textual Criticism quotes  favorite    Show Comments (0) Share a Comment/Meaning 500 characters max. Refrain from use of abusive language. subfail

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