JoeWallack

JW:
Maybe he's just not sure which of the many Nazaroos in the phone book you are.



Joseph

http://www.errancywiki.com/index.php/Main_Page

gregor

Nazaroo

Or could it be that Ehrman cares about you about as much as NASA cares about those who claim that the moon landings were faked.

Steven Avery

Hi Folks,

The following scriptures don't really apply directly to Bart Ehrman, since they are directed to folks within the body of Christ, and Bart is somewhere between atheist and agnostic.

2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as many,
which corrupt the word of God:
but as of sincerity, but as of God,
in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

1 Peter 5:2
Feed the flock of God which is among you,
taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly;
not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

However if you see anybody who purports to be a Bible-believer
who deceives about the word of God, and makes money doing so,
please feel free to share those two scriptures.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

Nazaroo

Let me state this (dealing with your points in reverse order):

This I appreciate: As a moderator of another board, I understand that it is indeed a question of balance, and there are a lot of gray areas. Nor can you please everyone.

I have however been very pleased with the way you have moderated this thread so far (in spite of what appear to me as unnecessary edits, these were minor and hardly affected the basic content of the thread).

I hope you will continue to exercise care and balance. Often moderators get flustered or frustrated when others are critical and complaining but never really valuing what moderators do. I hope you continue on your reasonable course.


Seriously: Ehrman is a man who first appeared on a leftist woman's radio talkshow.

Then he appeared on the DAILY SHOW, but only to give Stewart a chance to slag the Gideons. The entire interview was so bizarre and out of character for a COMEDY show, and yet neither was it any kind of scholarly discussion...

Then he appeared on the COLBERT REPORT. Where he allowed Colbert to bully him and mock fundamentalists at the same time. (The humour content was low, and low-brow, but at least it was there this time). Ehrman finished by admitting to Colbert he had no balls live on air....

And you wonder if Ehrman should take ME seriously...

Wow.


If Ehrman ever does take me seriously, I'll have to stop taking myself seriously.

Steven Avery

Hi Toto,

Please assist.

How do we know who is a prominent scholar?
And can factual attributions be attributed to them ?
Who arbitrates as to which attributions are ok and which baseless ?

eg. Ben Witherington was accused of poisoning a well. (And the motives of other Christian writers are impugned daily.) Is that ok because he hasn't sold as many books, or because he actually did poison an atheists well, or because an arbiter decided the accusation was not completely baseless ?

I understand that any accusation can be made against the deceased, or at least the restrictions are very, very light. So perhaps in textual realms of deception we should focus on the late Bruce Metzger ? Or is there a waiting period ?

Please help us understand these complex rules. We know that IIDB doesn't want to be involved in any type of deliberate double standard.

Thanks.

Shalom,
Steven

jgibson000

Especially when that attribution is done from the safety of annonimity and the person attributing such evil motives to another has not the courage to sign his real name to his charges.

Jeffrey Gibson

jgibson000

For once, Joseph, you and I are on the same page.

Jeffrey

Nazaroo

Give me a break.

'Courage' (= stupidity) is now a virtue?

Next you'll be asking us to volunteer for the army.

"Visit exotic lands...meet people of foreign and romantic cultures...and bomb the shit out of their women and children, brave warrior."

gregor

Which is it again, you're a selfless champion of truth and justice that will reveal his identity and let his enemies fire shots at him, or something else?

And since Prax brought you to the board, let's hear whether the Universe is 6.000 years old, the ark is history, evolution is false, the speed of light has changed over time, and the Bible is inerrant. Or is science also leftist, woman's stamp collecting.

Nazaroo

Here, hold on a sec while I paint a bullseye on my ass.


No, wait. I'm something else.

Why don't you paint a bullseye on your ass instead?


Prax didn't bring me here. I've been reading II for a long time.

To answer your unfounded and absurd questions:


http://www.christianforums.com/showp...9&postcount=26