Bart Ehrman on Premier Christian Radio

[pw201]

Bart Ehrman recently turned up on Premier Christian Radio's Unbelievable programme, talking to Peter Williams, Warden of Tyndale House. You can listen to the programme on Premier's site.

The subject of the programme was Ehrman's book Misquoting Jesus (which, confusingly, is also available in the UK as Whose Word Is It?), a book which we've

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Inerrancy

[anonymous]

Oh, and while I'm here: there must be a nice list of well-graded biblical inconsistencies somewhere, and I'm sure you know where.

I'm pretty sure there are two, incompatible, genealogies of Jesus in there somewhere. I can't quite see how the Chicago folk explain that away, but I'm sure they can, somehow.

The Weasel.

Re: Inerrancy

[pw201]

The problem with many Internet lists of Biblical contradictions is that they end up taking the Bible more literally than even most evangelicals think they should, so evangelicals can brush them aside easily. For example, stuff about how the Bible implies pi = 3 is clearly just an example of rounding. In general even evangelicals don't interpret single verses of the Bible as free-standing propositional statements (or they're not supposed to, anyway, although some of them try it if they think no-one's looking).

That's not to say there aren't good examples. An old posting of mine got into some of them.

The differing genealogies in Matthew and Luke represent an internal contradiction (the Bible contradicts itself) where the standard explanation (one of the genealogies is via Mary) doesn't really hold up.

The contradiction I mentioned in that posting is an external contradiction, if you like (the Bible contradicts reality). Pretty much everyone you ask who's not an inerrantist (including Bart Ehrman, in his God's Problem, but also more