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Bart Ehrman, biblical discernment, Biblical truth, Christianity, dangerous doctrine, false teachers, How God Became Jesus, Jesus Christ, Michael F Bird, Simon Gathercole
Raining on Bart Ehrman’s Easter parade
Easter is no longer just a time for Christians to celebrate the Resurrection and non-Christians to celebrate Easter bunnies. It’s also a time for anti-Christians to come out with highly publicized books attacking biblical accounts. Annually they debunk all the way to the bank. Bart Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee is one of this year’s efforts.
Happily, New Testament scholar Michael Bird and some of his colleagues have risen to the challenge by rapidly producing a response, How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature—A Response to Bart D. Ehrman.
First we have Bird’s overall critique of Ehrman’s work, followed by, courtesy of Zondervan, excerpts from two chapters of this counter-Ehrman book, the first written by Bird and the second penned by another New Testament scholar, Simon Gathercole.
Read the rest of this excellent article here.
The Narrowing Path 
Sadly, many professing “Christians” today also think that Jesus’ resurrection was only “spiritual” or “symbolical.” I’m sorry, folks, but it was physical, and therein lies the irrefutable proof that Jesus is God (as it had been prophesied, see Isaiah 9 et al.), and that is something that Satan and all his cohorts hate, hence all these nonsense anti-biblical books and movies, year after year (oh, so deliberately timed to coincide with the Passover Weekend/Resurrection Sunday, Christmas, etc.
Nice one, Sherryn. Thanks.
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The Bible, which is the Word of God is our reliable witness to Who Jesus Christ is and what He did because it is the work of the Holy Spirit through providentially chosen men. Jesus promised His disciples they would receive the Holy Spirit Who is the Spirit of Truth and that He would teach them all things and bring to their remembrance all that Jesus said to them. The Holy Spirit would also guide them into all truth. The gospel that Paul preached was received by Him from Jesus Christ through divine revelation. The Word of God is spiritually discerned and if one is not born again through faith in Jesus Christ and His glorious gospel then they don’t have the Holy Spirit and they can’t hope to understand and believe what the Bible says about Jesus Christ. To respond to an unbeliever with the same genre that the unbelievers uses is to fight demonic error with a water pistol rather than the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God that is powerful to demolish strongholds. I think these theologians are more interested in their places of prominence then they are in just teaching the revealed biblical doctrines about Jesus Christ and Who He is. They were long on human invention and reason and short on sharing the Scriptures. Something to think about. It is the Word of God the Holy Spirit uses to do His work in our lives. God bless you:)
http://holdingforthhisword.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/charge-some/
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Thanks Eliza, your input is always appreciated and welcome. I sometimes post articles that expose particular popular authors and the current trend of lies being spread around the non-Christian world. However, personally I find the approach of answering atheists on their own terms very fruitless. I see a lot of that happening here in Australia.
A perfect example:
https://publicchristianity.org/library/top-10-tips-for-atheists-this-easter
How on earth does a professing Christian write such an article? How is it that the first ‘tip’ for atheists at Easter is not “repent of your sins and believe in the crucified and risen Christ”? Sadly this article is also “long on human invention and reason and short on sharing the Scriptures”.
Blessings precious sister, Sherryn
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