Quotes from Bart D. Ehrman

it does not have to be veridical. It has to be believed.

Judaism was not principally about belief per se; for most Jews, Judaism was a set of practices

The author of "The Little Labyrinth" indicates that the Theodotians maintained that their view—that Jesus was completely human, and not divine, but that he was adopted to be the Son of God—had been the doctrine taught by the apostles themselves and by most of the church in Rome until the time of Bishop Victor, at the end of the second century.

Jewish texts known as the Sibylline Oracles.

Balfour wrote the famous Balfour Declaration, dated November 2, 1917, in the name of the country's cabinet in a letter

When it comes to Jesus, all we have are memories. There are no lifelike portraits from his day, no stenographic notes recorded on the spot, no accounts of his activities written at the time. Only memories of his life, of what he said and did. Memories written after the fact. Long after the fact. Memories written by people who were not

similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.

In no first-century Greek or Roman (pagan) source is Jesus mentioned. Scholars

the state of the world today. Why is it a place of such misery, pain, and suffering? Because it is not the good creation of the ultimate true God.

There are more differences among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament.

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.