Summary of Bart D. Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted

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#1 The Bible is the most widely purchased, extensively read, and deeply revered book in the history of Western Civilization. It is also the most thoroughly misunderstood, especially by the lay reading public.

#2 The Bible is often studied in seminaries, and the students there are typically theological students who have been raised in churches and have a strong devotion to the Bible. However, many of them do not know how to approach the Bible from a more academic perspective.

#3 The American Protestant seminaries are known for their challenging approach to the Bible, which is the historical-critical method. It is completely different from the devotional approach to the Bible that is taught in church.

#4 The historical-critical method is difficult to accept for many seminarians, who come in with the expectation of learning the pious truths of the Bible so that they can pass them along in their sermons. Instead, they learn that the Bible is filled with discrepancies, many of which are irreconcilable contradictions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669392002

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Insights on Bart D. Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Bible is the most widely purchased, extensively read, and deeply revered book in the history of Western Civilization. It is also the most thoroughly misunderstood, especially by the lay reading public.

#2

The Bible is often studied in seminaries, and the students there are typically theological students who have been raised in churches and have a strong devotion to the Bible. However, many of them do not know how to approach the Bible from a more academic perspective.

#3

The American Protestant seminaries are known for their challenging approach to the Bible, which is the historical-critical method. It is completely different from the devotional approach to the Bible that is taught in church.

#4

The historical-critical method is difficult to accept for many seminarians, who come in with the expectation of learning the pious truths of the Bible so that they can pass them along in their sermons. Instead, they learn that the Bible is filled with discrepancies, many of which are irreconcilable contradictions.

#5

When students come into seminary with the belief that the Bible is without error, they are shocked to discover that most critical scholars believe it is filled with mistakes. They begin to see that the Bible makes more sense if you consider its inconsistencies rather than insist that there are none.

#6

The New Testament has many internal inconsistencies, which are usually explained by saying that the Gospel writers used different sources for their accounts.

#7

The Bible has many problems that cannot be reconciled. It seems to embrace a view that is unworthy of God or his people. In Joshua 6, God orders the soldiers of Israel to attack the city of Jericho and to slaughter every man, woman, and child in the city.

#8

The God of the Old Testament is a God of vengeance, and the New Testament God is a God of judgment and wrath. The Lake of Fire is stoked up and ready for everyone who is opposed to God.

#9

The historical-critical method believes that each author of the Bible lived in his own time and place, and not in ours. Each author had a set of cultural and religious assumptions that we may not share. The authors must be allowed to have their own say.

#10

The mainstream Christian church appears to have a difficult time with the fact that its pastors learn the historical-critical method in their Bible classes, and yet when they become pastors, they seem to forget all about it.

#11

The church should be a mini-university where pastors function as professors from the pulpit. The ministry involves more