Tag Archives: New Testament

New Testament Reliability

Can we trust the New Testament? Christians say yes, of course; but how and why? The answer to that depends on exactly which question you’re asking. Did the events in it really happen? Was Jesus really crucified and resurrected? Did he appear to Paul on the road to Damascus? Are the New Testament’s ethical teachings

Bart Ehrman Again

On a Telic Thoughts thread based on my “Two Views of Faith” blog entry, Allen MacNeill left a comment suggesting we read this Salon.com article on Bart Ehrman. Ehrman is a best-selling author devoted to debunking the New Testament. The article presents his work as if it were nothing but normal scholarship made accessible for