Gudjonsson

I read "Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels"
by Craig A. Evans while I was still a Christian.

In the book he explained why Bart D. Ehrman lost his faith. After explaing rather well that Ehrman was right that the ending of Mark, the stroy about the women caught in aduletery etc, are late additions, he brushed it away by saying that it was not important. For me on the other hand it was important, and it contributed to my “deconversion”.

After reading the book, I fully accepted for the first time the errancy of the Bible. (previously I had accepted the fact that sometimes naïve ideas of the ancient Hebrews, like the earth being a flat disc etc, were to be found in the Bible, without considering those instances as “errors”.)

Craig A. Evans actually educated me in a good way, although his book is not good at all.

It is very interesting how he dealt with the Jesus-myth theories. He said that such silliness had been rejected in the 19th century, and that was it. The end of the question. I was to take his word for it, without any arguments, explanations or any data at all, that the Jesus-myth theories are utterly silly. (FYI I still have not made up my mind about what to think of the Jesus-myth case)

Toto

On the road with Lee

Steven Carr

SO Strobel hides his true beliefs from people whenever he thinks it suits him to do so.

Such an objective searcher for the truth....