In fact, the copies are copies of copies, and they're filled with errors or intentional changes made over decades or centuries by scribes. All we have are copies, made years later - usually, many centuries later. In one of the first classes he took at Moody, he learned that none of the original texts of the New Testament exist. It was an intellectual problem at first, but it soon became larger and harder to quarantine. Eager to study Holy Scripture full-time, he entered the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago - motto: "Moody Bible Institute, where Bible is our middle name" - where every professor and student had to sign a statement attesting that the Bible is the inerrant word of God, a divinely inspired document from its first page (Genesis 1:1) to its last (Revelation 22:21).īut almost immediately, Ehrman ran into a problem. Raised as a not particularly devout Episcopalian in 1950s Kansas, the best-selling Bible scholar had a "born-again" experience as a high school sophomore and asked Jesus into his heart. Bart Ehrman's career is testament to the fact that no one can slice and dice a belief system more surgically than someone who grew up inside it.
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