Misquoting Jesus in the Bible - Professor Bart D. Ehrman

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• DA

  @davidburns6073 · 11 years ago

  always search for the truth no matter where that takes you

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• MC

  @McLKeith · 7 years ago (edited)

  The following is brilliant.<br>When Erhman asked his students how many of them believed the Bible is the inspired word of God, the entire class put up their hands. When Erhman asked them how many of them had read the Bible from cover to cover, only a few hands went up. Ehrman commented, “You’d think that if people believe the Bible is the inspired word of God, they would want to know what God had to say.”

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• TH

  @thescoobymike · 5 years ago

  Stone didn&apos;t even need to be rolled away if Jesus could walk through walls

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• AG

  @AGRANT716 · 6 years ago

  &quot;If God inspired a book, &nbsp;you&apos;d think you&apos;d want to read it&quot;. My thoughts exactly.

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• RO

  @ronboyd9 · 6 years ago

  Jesus had amazing stamina to say what he said on the cross. Also an amazing stenographer had to be there and hear it all.

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• JB

  @JBrooksNYS · 7 years ago (edited)

  Very informative. Now I feel much more knowledgable and confident in my misquoting of Jesus.

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• TR

  @trishp1449 · 7 years ago

  I think I listened to this before but it was fascinating and you make it very understandable. Thank u and whoever put it on YouTube.

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• AL

  @allenalsop6032 · 6 years ago

  Even simple mistakes in punctuation can change the meaning of a phrase or sentence completely! This is true even in modern languages which are usually less precise than ancient languages. &nbsp;Some concepts and words have no direct translation at all in other languages and must be paraphrased. Different scribes would have done this differently and could change the meaning completely.

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• LI

  @Lillycroose · 6 years ago

  Before I discovered the world of former believers turn atheist/agnostic I really thought I was on an island. Listening to people like him make me feel a sense of validation that I never knew I would need on this path of life. I tried to describe to my friend that the eras I saw in the Bible became to great for me to continue to believe in god. She told me she just ignored the parts of the Bible I was talking about because at the end of the day “man could have messed up some things because after all we are human and only god is perfect”. I responded, “How would the god that created the universe, the massive amazing universe not make sure his precious word was preserved for all time. We are suppose to base salvation on what it teaches. You can’t convince me that a god that can create the marvels of the world &nbsp;and a galaxy that is so massive that even traveling at the speed of light we couldn’t cross it in our lifetime. It would take 200,000 years and that’s just our galaxy. So a god who can create these things would make sure that no errors would distort his word”. &nbsp;I was one of those Christian that bought into the belief that Jesus was the bread of life and I needed to know his word and hide it in my heart. So to be spiritually fed and transform I would renew my mind by sitting at the feet of Jesus and seeking his truth through the word. But to my complete and utter anguish it caused legit turmoil. From that I fasted and interceded because I thought I must be under demonic attack. I must have a spirit devotion, of Jezebel, or a spirit of Leviathan. I went to leaders and humbly shared the despair and doubt that reading the Bible was causing me. But to no avail I couldn’t get free from this dark cloud. I would blare worship music to drown out the thoughts of doubt. I was quite literally trying to get myself to STOP THINKING. Moral of the story is decided to start thinking and allowed myself to accept I am not a believer. I am finally free. Without a doubt free from oppression! It kind of makes me giggle thinking that back in the day if I had talk to myself I would have felt bad for me and &nbsp;thought, “man she is deceived”.

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• NO

  @NotTheMaestro · 2 years ago

  I’ve challenged a few people on this now and they had absolutely no idea there were any discrepancies at all. They didn’t even believe me when I told them.

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• KE

  @kelvellinnery2406 · 6 years ago

  I&apos;m Brazilian I still learning English, so one day I come back here.

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• JE

  @JesusBelieverDiane · 2 years ago

  Majority of people have not read the Bible, even “Christians.” They rely on others to tell them what they want to hear.

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