Ehrman is an ex-evangelical who lost his belief in a “god-inspired” bible as he studied at a protestant seminary. How did Christianity as we know it today, come to be?īart D.Why are there so many discrepancies in a book that was “written by god”?.Who was the real Jesus, what was his message, and is it decipherable after so many millennia?.Why was Jesus thought to be divine and when did this happen?.He uses this technique to answer all the questions I have asked for many years, backed up by extensive historical research. He speaks about reading the bible horizontally which refers to examining similar stories and how they are told across the gospels and other books of the bible. He answers the questions that my 8-year-old self began asking and those I continued to ask all the way to my deconversion.Įhrman explains how an historical scholar would approach the analysis of a book – he calls the bible “the most significant book in human history”. Ehrman paints a picture in “Jesus, Interrupted”, of the bible, which makes complete sense to me.
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