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'How Jesus became god'... from not being one. Bart Ehrman.

Somerville said:
Yet another attack upon those who point out that there are problems with the 'history' of the world's largest religious group, by creating mythical "conspiritards (. . .) who endorses(sic) such miscellaneous pastimes as anal sex, hippy festivals and mindless self-indulgence,"
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It's appropriate for the kind of drivel it's responding to.


Darrell Bock is a man with the proper education and training in the subject of Biblical formation, who unfortunately values his personal religious beliefs more than a willingness to accept new knowledge which contradicts some of his tightly-held faith. He gladly accepts the mantle of "evangelical, Christian apologist"
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And that means you can make judgements on his books without reading them and having any idea what he writes re his book The Missing Gospels, does it? So much for your idea of 'scholarship'. You don't indulge in that yourself, so why be critical of others for doing what you don't do yourself?
 
RAMOSS said:
Well, I find it fascinating he claimed to be an atheist, yet ever argument he uses is fundamental christian.
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What I find fascinating is you not having any idea of what Christianity is, yet pretending to be an expert on it. I haven't used a single theological argument in any of my posts, for instance, and of course you only read some gibberish on a web page somewhere, without verifying or researching any of it, and because it sounded good, you just repeat it over and over as if you know it to be factual. You're just ignorant, that's all, and have no idea or even care what it is you're babbling, you're just peddling and spamming for ideological reasons, not because you're intelligent and educated.
 
Oberon said:
You aren't going to read his work anyway, and given your rather ignorant versions of 'history', I can't bring myself to care who or what you consider 'credible'. In fact, why not post a list of who you consider 'credible' so I can avoid wasting my time reading them?
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Please ignore the following academics and authors, some are strong mythicists while others are more agnostic about the existence of a man named Jesus and his centrality to the formation of the early Church(es)

  • Kurt Noll, Associate Professor and Chair of the Religion Department at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada where he teaches Judaism, Christianity, biblical languages and Islam.
  • Arthur J Droge, Lecturer Religious Studies, University of Toronto
  • Thomas L Thompson, Emeritus Professor (2009) Old Testament exegesis, University of Copenhagen
  • Gerd Lüdemann, Chair of History and Literature of Early Christianity, University of Göttingen. He believes in a historical Jesus but not a divine being
  • Burton L Mack, John Wesley Professor emeritus in early Christianity at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. Believes in a historical Jesus preacher greatly influenced by the Hellenistic Cynic philosophers
  • Richard Carrier, prominent proponent of the mythical Jesus concept, Ph D. Columbia University, Ancient History with a focus on the intellectual history of Greece and Rome.
  • Thomas William Harpur, retired Anglican priest, MA from Oxford University(1954)Before his ordination in 1956, he studied theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, while teaching classes in ancient Greek.
  • Thomas L Brodie, Roman Catholic Dominican priest, author of Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery in which his studies had lead him to a disbelief in any historical Jesus. Banned from teaching but remains in the Dominican order
  • Robert M Price, Ph D, teaches philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary and is a professor at Center for Inquiry Institute (SUNY), former Baptist minister
  • Raphael Latester, PhD researcher (Studies in Religion) at the University of Sydney, Australia. Author of There was no Jesus, There is no God
  • Hector Avalos, PhD from Harvard with focus on Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Studies, Professor Religious Studies Iowa State University, former Pentecostal preacher

Three without the academic qualifications but with a lot of influence on the 'scholars', some of whom support the theses offered in whole or part, while others attack them often using ad hom claims while failing to address the ideas proposed.
  • Earl K Doherty, author of Jesus: Neither God Nor Man: The Case for a Mythical Jesus
  • Rene Salm, has written on the non-existence of the supposed childhood home of Jesus - Nazareth. Author of The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus
  • Acharya S (D.M Murdock), proposed that the Jesus character and early Christianity was based on much older Egyptian and Hellenic myths. Author of Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection
 
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