Bart Ehrman Quotes

In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?

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• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

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• I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

  

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  Daniel Alarcon
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• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

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• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

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  Hans Kung
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  Walter Rauschenbusch
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  Angie Thomas
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• In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Writers
  • Gospel