CrossExamined Blog » Blog Archive » Is the New Testament Reliable? Even Bart Ehrman Says Yes

Here is a great article analyzing exactly what Bart Ehrman's contentions against the reliability of the New Testament are.

So why does Ehrman give one impression to the general public and the opposite to the academic world? Could it be because he can get away with casting doubt on the New Testament to an uninformed public, but not to his academic peers? Does selling books have anything to do with it? I don’t know. I just find the contradiction here quite telling– the man who gets all the attention for casting doubt on the text of the Bible, upon further review, doesn’t really doubt it himself.

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Truthbomb Apologetics: Common Objection #14- "Jesus' Disciples were Uneducated and Illiterate."

Over on his blog, Truthbomb Apologetics, Chad has done a great post about the educational level of Jesus' followers and the authors of the Gospels in particular. It's a direct reply to the claims of Bart Ehrman.

Truthbomb Apologetics: Common Objection #14- "Jesus' Disciples were Uneducated and Illiterate."

Atheists claim that “the Old Testament still applies” | True Freethinker

Mariano has written a very great post. Here is his introduction:

You may or may not be surprised that many atheists attempt to talk Christians, and other atheists, into believing that the Old Testament still applies (they are unsuccessful with Christians but very successful with other atheists). Three examples of this follow and all such claims seem to focus, or lack focus, upon one text…to which we shall come.
So does the Old Testament still apply? Did it require savvy 21st century atheists to figure out that 2,000 years of Christian have been mistaken about the Old Testament and therefore the New?

The arrogance of atheist who use arguments like this seem to think that the arguments are new and no one has every given good credible answers to them. Mariano's answer is not new but it is powerful. I have never read and heard a good rebuttal to it.

Atheists claim that “the Old Testament still applies” | True Freethinker