A Book Review of “In the Beginning” by Lawrence R. Farley
The ever-present creation/evolution debate, along with the intense debate regarding the proper interpretation of Genesis 1-11, is not going away anytime soon. O...
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Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 12): Conclusions–The Fundamentalist Plummer in an Art Gallery
We now come to my final post in my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. In this post I will cover Ehrman’s last two chapters, as well a...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 11)–Jesus: What and Angel!
We are now in the home stretch of my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God. In this post, I will be covering chapter 7, entitled, “Jesus ...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 10): Ehrman’s Attempt to Explain an Evolving Christology
The sixth chapter of Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God is entitled, “The Beginning of Christology: Christ as Exalted to Heaven.” As the title suggests, the cha...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 9): What Does Ehrman Know About the Resurrection of Jesus? Turns out, not much…
In chapter 5 of his book, How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman discusses “what we can know” about the resurrection of Jesus. Of course, given the fact that in the ...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 8): No Empty Tomb and no Joseph of Arimathea
The earliest Christians didn’t claim Jesus was physically resurrected. There is no way to know if there was an empty tomb. There probably wasn’t even a tomb to ...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 7): Resurrection? You’re Talking About Resurrection?
In chapter 4 of Bart Ehrman’s book, How Jesus Became God, focuses on what Ehrman believes we cannot know about the resurrection of Jesus. Early on in the chapte...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 6): Sources, Shell Games…and How Jesus Wasn’t the Son of Man?
When it comes to assessing which parts of the Gospels are historically credible and which aren’t, Bart Ehrman adheres to the generally accepted methods of bibli...
Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God” (Part 5): Why Ehrman doesn’t think the Gospels are historically reliable….
After a temporary diversion into addressing Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement,” I am now getting back to my extended book analysis of Bart Ehrman’s Ho...
Richard Carrier and the Mythical Jesus (Part 4): Mythical Carriers and Ark Encounters–How Richard Carrier and Ken Ham are the Captains of the Same Titanic
Up until about three weeks ago, I really hadn’t paid much attention to Richard Carrier and the “mythicist movement.” I knew a little bit about his claims, but s...