![]() ![]() Simply put, I cannot believe anyone who knows how to read would make some of the conclusions Ehrman makes.Ĭase in point, Ehrman claims to detect at progressive embellishment to the resurrection accounts : “Our earliest account of Jesus’ resurrection discusses the appearances without mentioning an empty tomb, while our earliest Gospel, Mark, narrates the discovery of the empty tomb without discussing any of the appearances (Mark 16:1-8)” (142). Not to continue to bang the “Ehrman still reads like a fundamentalist” drum, but well, Ehrman still reads the Bible like a fundamentalist! Or more properly, like a former fundamentalist now turned skeptic who reads with a shocking level of wooden literalism. In order to come to that conclusion, though, Ehrman reads the New Testament accounts in a rather curious way. One point Ehrman makes in chapter 4 of How Jesus Became God is that the empty tomb/resurrection accounts were not part of the original Christian message but were made up later on when the Gospels were written. “As a historian,” Bart Ehrman rejects the historical sources we have and writes a book in which he makes things up. I find it rather funny that Ehrman goes to great lengths to emphasize his task as a historian (as we’ll see in this post), but what his entire argument concerning Jesus consists of is explaining away the validity of the actual first century sources we actually have, and then replacing it with his own fabricated tale about Jesus that is not attested to in any document or source whatsoever. Of course, the only problem with all of that is that there is no historical evidence for any of it. So goes the Gospel according to Bart Ehrman. What happened was that some of Jesus’ disciples had visions of him after he was killed, and they had become convinced that he had been “resurrected” and was now exalted to heaven. There probably wasn’t even a tomb to begin with because Jesus probably was either never buried at all or was thrown into a mass grave with other people who were executed by the Romans. There is no way to know if there was an empty tomb. The earliest Christians didn’t claim Jesus was physically resurrected.
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