Dear Pax,
I understand your perspective but I think you are understating the case. Ehrman does not merely disagree with your theology. He thinks what you believe it totally false. Do the below statements sound like a disagreement over theology.
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Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord," he tells a packed auditorium here at the University of North Carolina, where he chairs the department of religious studies. But there could be a fourth option --legend.
Ehrman slowly came to a horrifying realization: There was no real historical record. It was, he felt, all incense and myth, told by illiterate men
I just began to lose it," Ehrman says now, in a conversation that stretches from late afternoon into the evening. It wasn't for lack of trying. But I just couldn't believe there was a God in charge of this mess.
He thinks that when you die, there are no Pearly Gates. I think you just cease to exist, like the mosquito you swatted yesterday.
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Pax, my brother, Ehrman is an atheist, does not believe that Jesus ever existed and that the New Testament was written by illiterate men. This is more than a dispute over theology.
Sincerely,
Dean