Bart D. Ehrman Quotes

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

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

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

As time goes on, thing do get made up.

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew