Part 7 - Craig Evans vs. Bart Ehrman Debate: Does the New Testament Misquote Jesus?

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

Craig Evans is the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College of Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College, he received his M.Div. from Western Baptist Seminary in Portland, Oregon, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Claremont Graduate University in southern California. He has also been awarded the D.Habil. by the Karoli Gaspard Reformed University in Budapest. A well-known evangelical scholar throughout the world, he is an elected member of the prestigious SNTS, a society dedicated to New Testament studies.

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[grassburner]

Why doesnt Craig Evans just stop reading and just say. I'm still going to believe no matter how many problems there is with the Bible.

[COLDB33R]

@mattetho He's no more fired up than most of the sermons I've heard, and besides he's merely responding to the hostility he feels being directed towards him. Perfectly natural IMO.

Why don't you get away from the tone of what he says and address the substance? Oh, that's right you can't.

[bentopapa007]

This isn't a debate, it's an a88 whooping. Thank God for Bart Ehrman. He is a REAL messenger of truth.

[MrGoodNKinky]

Even by any of the Gospels Jesus wasn't in the tomb for 3 days!

A day is Evening to Morning!

Friday Evening to Saturday morning = 1 Day!

Saturday Evening to Sunday Morning = 2 Days!

Having Jesus rise from the dead before Monday means it was not 3 days but 2 Days!

Wouldn't an ALL KNOWING God have known this fact?

[Nashamoshe]

@ClumsyRoot I will no need for your command

[Nashamoshe]

@Garabaldi323 You quote me from Iliad but reject the Bible... That s so strange!

[Garabaldi323]

@Nashamoshe 'Father Zeus, is there any mortal left on the wide earth

who will still declare to the immortals his mind and his purpose?

Do you not see how now these flowing-haired Achaians

have built a wall landward of their ships, and driven about it

a ditch, and not given to the gods any grand sacrifice?

Now the fame of this will last as long as dawnlight is scattered,

and men will forget that wall which I and Phoibos Apollo

built with our hard work for the hero Laomedon's city.'

[ClumsyRoot]

@Nashamoshe

You keep telling yourself that... 

[Nashamoshe]

@ClumsyRoot No Put your trust in God who superintends His message... God is God and He can use any broken vessel. fallible men for His Grander Purpose... He can do ALL thing. I agree with you that the men who wrote the Bible were fallible but yet the Word is infallible as God`s power goes beyond our weakness.

[ClumsyRoot]

@Nashamoshe

Yet I should put my trust in the words of the fallible, biased men who wrote the Bible?

[Nashamoshe]

@ClumsyRoot If you don`t believe internal testimony of the Bible to be the word of God (2 Timothy 3:16 AND 2 Peter 1:20-21) I can give you many external proofs as well... remember science and history are biased and Ehrman as a normal human being, although more intelligent than dumb, tends to be wrong... if you believe this man or other human beings like Marx or Darwin (and their theories) are infallible, so you are prone to be biased too... only choose your battles, I stand for Jesus.