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So did Ehrman explain why the Romans did not round up the members of this insurgent gang? Did he produce any parallels of a preacher wandering around with a fixed number of disciples? Just how weird is it that Jesus had 12 disciples? OK, Snow White had seven dwarves, but what new religious movement ...

Gosh, McGrath found the time to write a lot of words. Has Dr. Who been cancelled or something? MCGRATH If we visit the Facebook page of Robert M. Price, another mythicist, and one of the few who has appropriate credentials, we find that he has embraced climate change denialism just as he has embrace...

arly Christians definitely believed that Jesus had been resurrected after his death on earth and then raised to heaven. Therefore it was a possible idea in the ancient world, (otherwise early Christians would not have come to believe it.) If any early Christians unambiguously and explicitly taught ...

It is multiply attested in numerous independent witnesses, both at the trial itself and as the charge written on the placard that hung with him on his cross. This is disappointing. Who are these "numerous independent witnesses?" We have Mark and that's it. Even if he wants to count John a...

And so Pilate ordered Jesus crucified on the spot. According to our records , which are completely believable at this point, the soldiers roughed him up, mocked him, flogged him, and then led him off to be crucified. Evidently, two similar cases were decided that morning. Maybe a couple more the da...

And so Pilate ordered Jesus crucified on the spot. According to our records , which are completely believable at this point, the soldiers roughed him up, mocked him, flogged him, and then led him off to be crucified. Evidently, two similar cases were decided that morning. Maybe a couple more the da...

It just downloaded to my Kindle. I'm going to read it and give some chapter summaries/reviews as I go. Don't forget to tell us how Ehrman explains that Jesus was killed as a potential troublemaker by the Romans, but none of his followers, even when they started taunting the Romans by installing Jes...

No one deserves the kind of abuse heaped upon people on both sides of this stupid debate. So in the first 10 pages of his 'Did Jesus Exist' book, Ehrman compares people who disagree with him to Holocaust deniers. And yet somehow , we are not allowed to point out all the errors and bad logic he stuf...

There is an excerpt at salon.com

But Christians claim the resurrection of Jesus was unique. Even Paul says it was 'the first', which means he did not think there were any parallels. Paul thought Jesus was a kind of reverse Adam who was the "first fruit" of the imminent mass resurrection, not that he was the first person ...