Bart Ehrman continues to have a problem with God...

Bart D. Ehrman is a New Testament scholar and textual critic of early Christianity. He attempts to discern the original wording of the gospels, epistles, and other ancient texts. He claims that his research demonstrates that not only was the Biblical text unintentionally altered by scribes, but sometimes was done intentionally for a variety of reasons such as to make them more uniform and bring them into conformity with changing beliefs.

Ehrman began studying the Bible and its original languages at the Moody Bible Institute and is a 1978 graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois. He received his Ph.D and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he studied under Bruce Metzger. He currently serves as the chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the President of the Southeast Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, and worked closely as an editor on a number of the Society's publications. Currently, he co-edits the series New Testament Tools and Studies.

Much of Ehrman's writing has concentrated on various aspects of Walter Bauer's thesis that Christianity was always diversified or at odds with itself. Ehrman is often considered a pioneer in connecting the history of the early church to textual variants within biblical manuscripts and in coining such terms as "Proto-orthodox Christianity." In his writings, Ehrman has turned around textual criticism. From the time of the Church Fathers, it was the heretics (Marcion, for example) who were charged with tampering with the biblical manuscripts. Ehrman theorizes that it was more often the Orthodox that "corrupted" the manuscripts, altering the text to promote particular viewpoints. He has authored or contributed to nineteen books.

Ehrman became an Evangelical Christian as a teen. His desire to understand the original words of the Bible led him to the study of ancient languages and to textual criticism, which he attributes to undermining his faith in the Bible as the inerrant, unchanging word of God. He now considers himself an agnostic. Nevertheless, Ehrman has kept ongoing dialogue with evangelicals. In March of 2006, he joined theologian William Lane Craig in public debate on the question "Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus?" on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross.[1] Ehrman is slated in April of 2008 to dialogue with evangelical New Testament scholar Daniel B. Wallace on the textual reliability of the New Testament.[2]

In 2006, he appeared on The Colbert Report, as well as The Daily Show, to promote his book Misquoting Jesus. In 2007, he gave a speech at Stanford University in which he discussed the textual inconsistencies of the New Testament, and also takes questions from the audience. He has also made several guest appearances on National Public Radio (NPR) including the show Fresh Air in February 2008 to discuss his book God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer.

In God's Problem, Ehrman discusses his personal anguish upon discovering the Bible's contradictory explanations for suffering and invites all people of faith - or no faith - to confront their deepest questions about how God engages the world and each of us.

The former pastor of the Princeton Baptist Church continues to try and discredit christianity, the bible and the death and resurrection of Jesus. He therefore meets the definition of an apostate. He was once declaring he was in the faith and now opposes that very faith he once preached. He continues to hurt the cause of Christ with his books of apostasy and twisting of scripture and history. Here is the actual definition of apostasy.

Apostasy (IPA: /əˈpɒstəsi/) is a term generally used to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to one's former religion. One who commits apostasy is an apostate, or one who apostatises. The word derives from Greek αποστασία, meaning a defection or revolt, from απο, apo, "away, apart", στασις, stasis, "standing".

I have posted a video by Dr. James White in response to Mr. Ehrman's book "God's Problem". Dr. White does an excellent job refuting the agnostic Ehrman and his assertions about the book of Job!!




I agree with Dr. White...It is not God's problem! It is Bart Ehrman's problem with God!

By His Grace alone,

Bill