Quotes About Dan Barker

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

Bart Ehrman, in Misquoting Jesus, reminds us that there are more variants among the ancient documents than there are words in the New Testament.

The Gospel accounts cannot be considered historical, but even if they were, they tell us that the earliest biography of Jesus contains no resurrection!

Mark Twain said the same thing better: "Heaven for climate; hell for society.

if a miracle is defined as some kind of violation, suspension, overriding or punctuation of natural law, then miracles cannot be historical.

This is evidence that goodness and wickedness in the bible have nothing to do with morality.

evangelical translators are simply trying to paper over a discrepancy.

This is not the agenda of a team of objective scholars.