{"id":45182,"date":"2014-09-11T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=45182"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:32:36","slug":"jesus-never-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/jesus-never-existed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Never Existed? Bart Ehrman Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Bart-Erhman.jpg\" alt=\"Bart Erhman\" width=\"277\" height=\"217\" \/>Several times over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve had conversations where friends have have seriously cast doubt over <em>the very existence<\/em> of Jesus of Nazareth, claiming that there&#8217;s no evidence that He&#8217;s even a real, historical figure.<\/p>\n<p>You tend to hear stuff like this\u00a0a lot on the Internet, but such claims are noticeably absent in respected academic scholarship. When I say &#8220;academic scholarship&#8221;, I&#8217;m not just referring to conservative Christian scholars either. I&#8217;m including liberal scholars, atheists, agnostics and those of other faiths. To demonstrate this, here&#8217;s an interview with Bart Erhman, who is an agnostic, former Christian, and a well-known figure in the area of Biblical criticism:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUQMJR2BP1w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=15&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(I&#8217;ve moved the video start time past the pejorative preamble)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Catholic Answers recently produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.com\/blog\/jon-sorensen\/popular-news-site-claims-jesus-never-existed\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> in response in response to a recent article on Salon.com also on this subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve had conversations where friends have have seriously cast doubt over the very existence of Jesus of Nazareth, claiming that there&#8217;s no evidence that He&#8217;s even a real, historical figure. You tend to hear stuff like this\u00a0a lot on the Internet, but such claims are noticeably absent in respected academic scholarship. When I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17],"tags":[2794,2795,2969,1436,84],"class_list":["post-45182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-faith","tag-bart-ehrman","tag-existed","tag-featured","tag-history","tag-jesus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45706,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45182\/revisions\/45706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}