How can anyone hold that it’s important that every word of the Bible is “without error” when we don’t even know what many of the original words even were?Įhrman’s got a strong point here. What seemed to erode Ehrman’s faith in Seminary, so far as I could tell, was the challenge textual variations posed to a belief in “inerrancy” (the belief that every word of the Bible has to be without error). Now, I’ll start by expressing a point of agreement with Ehrman’s work. I suspect this chip on his shoulder biases his scholarship a bit.
He was “edgy.” But it was clear, even back then, that he had a sort of chip on his shoulder about the fundamentalism he’d been raised in. We used to smoke pipes together up in the smokers’ lounge at Princeton Seminary. How can we believe the Bible is God’s inerrant Word when we don’t even know what the original Bible said?Īnswer: I actually went to graduate school with Bart Ehrman (at Princeton). Question: I just read Bart Ehrman’s book Misquoting Jesus and it’s sort of rocked my world.
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