{"id":6281,"date":"2009-04-15T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/04\/bart-ehrman-on-the-colbert-rep.html"},"modified":"2009-04-15T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T09:04:10","slug":"bart-ehrman-on-the-colbert-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/04\/bart-ehrman-on-the-colbert-rep.html","title":{"rendered":"Bart Ehrman on The Colbert Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I don’t think the duck defense is the best defense for the divinity of Christ but the elephant analogy is not too bad. The stories of the crucifixion were written with a purpose and the writer included details for a reason. Just because Bible scholars don’t understand that reason doesn’t mean the writers didn’t know what they were writing about or that they were lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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BTW, even if John were the only Gospel that stated Jesus was divine (which I am in no way conceding since they all do in ways that I guess Ehrman doesn’t understand or dismisses), that doesn’t make it a lie. And the lateness of John doesn’t invalidate the truth claims of the Gospel.Here are two examples from Matthew that acknowledge Christ’s deity:<\/p>\n

ESV Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).ESV Matthew 3:3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those are two explicit examples but throughout Matthew Jesus assumes an authority that is God’s alone. He is the lawgiver (Matthew 5), he forgives sins (Matthew 9:2), he commands creation (Matthew 8:27), etc.(via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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