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Doesn't Philo's On the Embassy to Gaius count as a 1st century reference? My guess is that Ehrman doesn't consider Philo as a "Roman source". Based on his statement, he appears to disregard Josephus also as a "Roman source", and Josephus actually lived in Rome and became a Roman...

So Ehrman writes a brand new article, just a few days ago, repeating his same errors, and slamming Carrier for pointing out the error in the first place, an error Ehrman has just repeated, and it is Carrier who is arrogant? Ehrman's logic is that apart from all the sources which mention Pilate, we d...

Can't Ehrman get his graduate students to check his research? Are they too busy nowadays? Of course, pointing out mistakes Ehrman makes, and then makes again, and then repeats years later counts as 'vitriol, hatred, and mean-spiritedness'? No, Bart, just get the basic facts right.... Google is the f...

'It is true that Jesus is not mentioned in any Roman sources of his day. That should hardly count against his existence, however, since these same sources mention scarcely anyone from his time and place. Not even the famous Jewish historian, Josephus, or even more notably, the most powerful and impo...

No.

Suppose there is an empty tomb.

According to the Christian story, evidence damaging to Christianity was given unwittingly to a secret sympathiser of Jesus to look after, and 36 hours later it went missing. How is that a miracle?

So where is your integrity? You reject a source on some issues, but accept it on others. What's the point? People with integrity believe everything somebody says, if they believe one thing that person says? If somebody once tells the truth, everything they say should then be accepted without questi...

Yes, we can't tell something is a myth unless we know who developed that myth, how and why.

That is why I doubt that the story of Jack and the Beanstalk is a myth.

Ehrman also cites Romans 8:3: For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. and makes an interesting comment about it: It is interesting that Paul uses this term likeness - just as ...

1 Corinthians 2:8 'None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.'

Did Paul think Jesus was the Lord of glory when he was crucified? Or only after he had been crucified?

That's me talking, though, not Ehrman. Ehrman supports the Twelve by reference to the Q saying where Jesus tells the disciples they'll sit on twelve thrones (MT. 19:28, Lk. 22:30). Ehrman says it passes the criterion of dissimilarity because Judas is included among the "twelve" that Jesus...