Why is it most people have never heard such things? As Ehrman skillfully demonstrates, they have been the standard and widespread views of critical scholars across a full spectrum of denominations and traditions. These are not idiosyncratic perspectives of just one modern scholar. Established Christian doctrines, such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity were the inventions of still later theologians.Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all represented fundamentally different religions.The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later.The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was and how salvation works.Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed: Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times best seller, Misquoting Jesus, left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches.and it's not what most people think.
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