An amazing lecture on biblical manuscript tampering by Dr. Bart Ehrman. Dr. Ehrman is a professor and the chairman of Religious Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also the author of the book "Misquoting Jesus."
Dr. Bart Ehrman was an evangelical Christian as a teenager, and was very interested in what he thought was God's true message. However, Dr. Ehrman's subsequent close analysis of the Bible and research into the field of textual criticism destroyed his faith in the Bible.
Dr Ehrman is now an agnostic, and is a prime example of someone who has looked at Christianity deeply but found it to be faulty as a religion.
This lecture is part of the "Heyns Lecture Series," and took place in Stanford University
http://bartdehrman.com/http://www.bartehrmanbooks.com/http://religiouslife.stanford.edu/ *Lecture starts at 4.00 and there is a Q&A session after lecture
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bamdrewstarts off great; scattered hands raise when he asks a class if they've read the Bible... "if God wrote a book, wouldn't you want to see what he had to say?"
qruel^great point, isn't it?
bamdrewbleh, so lazy, too lazy to watch all of the 10 or whatever parts right now
Fadereading the Bible is not a requirement for being saved
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qruel^FADE, no one here said that reading the bible was a requirement for being saved.
But, I'm sure you got the "point", That "most" people who believe that the bible is the word of god have not read it through. which as the first post stated,
"if God wrote a book, wouldn't you want to see what he had to say?"
lertadHis points are true for most religions as well...I'm interested in seeing the rest of this lecture.
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wawawaIt is no brainer that the Bible is all fiction and fabrication.
newtboy"Fables aren't history" is a lesson that shouldn't take an hour and a half to teach.
I'm actually incredulous that 45 people watched the entire thing.....oh, on closer examination 16 people upvoted it, and Sifty voted 29 times? Whaaaaa?
vilIf so many people think God wrote a book IMHO it becomes relevant to study it at least superficially just so you can co-exist and communicate with all these people.
The stories in the book are mostly not history but the book itself and how it came to be certainly is.
Seriously if God is omnipotent and knows everything this book of his shows a strong sense of humor rather than much intelligent design. Like having bits and pieces garbled by running them back and forward through ancient humanoid versions of modern day OCR, machine translation and political censorship.
I love the Septuaginta bit (not in this video) where mythically 70ish scholars were secluded for 70ish days and each came up with his own Greek translation and they were all mythically identical. Where in reality the translation took decades, was a team effort that garbled the texts to appease current rulers and added whole new books.
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