I think that this is a very superficial way to explain things. Many saw the miracles that Christ performed and did not believe, but on the contrary, they tried to kill him and the one who he raised from the dead. You cannot make me believe that all the miracles were made up by humans, and that all believers believed after hearing a short story about the amazing miracles. Of course, I must remind you that God will always leave you an excuse not to believe in Him because He did not give you free will to take it from you. The easiest thing for God is to appear in the clear sky and say to all people. If you do not believe in me, you will perish. I assure you that everyone will believe, but out of fear of God. But God wants you to choose Him or reject Him. With the many arguments available, I will end with an argument that has been skipped in the lecture, which is: How do some people invent fairy tales and all die for the fairy tales that they made up? Are they all crazy? Why does Saul, a true Pharisee, turn from a person with a position and status into a man who is stoned for the sake of Christ? Did he also suddenly find himself loving and believing short stories? Although he was not one of the nations who search for the most powerful god, he was a fanatical Jew who lived for his God and killed everyone he thought was deceiving people and distancing them from God. But overall great lecture if you want to ease your conscience about how Christianity spread, I think this lecture will be a good painkiller.

I disagree because if you are agnostic, you technically don't believe in god. You would know if you believe because you would have faith.

These lectures gave me a peek into human unquenchable desire for the grand narrative. Once they believed in a grand narrative claimed to be of divine origin, they are willing to change the reality just to make sure their grand narrative stay "true".

I'm just a confused muslim with a crisis of faith. I don't think bing watching Bart's lectures is gonna help restore my faith, but it's so damn addictive!

The ancients believed in one god and then came the Romans / Greeks who Hellenized God's word… the so-called sun God and animals attributed to god weren't perceived as gods but as animal attributes.

The ancients believed in one god and then came the Romans / Greeks who Hellenized God's word… the so-called sun God and animals attributed to god weren't perceived as gods but as animal attributes.

Bart is such a great communicator, and I have learned an inordinate amount of stuff from him. I’m a believing Christian, but he has certainly given my faith some intellectual guidelines. Unquestioned faith is blind. I don’t get the sense that Bart is out there to dispel people of their religion; rather, to better inform them. Atheists and agnostics would certainly attract more people with honey like this.

Not only a great lecture, but the bit at the end was brilliantly put.

Not nice meeting a liar and a mr no nothing

Reason for my post is that the man is misleading poeple and he is a liar

Thank you! I have felt that I must be weird because I am agnostic, but I am very interested in Christianity, fully support it, and even wind up defending it from hypocritical Bible bangers. But I don't feel alone anymore.

So much truth in his lectures. However, his comment regarding the medical condition of schizophrenia was Hurtful and very unsubstantiated in 2024.

Wait, so Peter a common man performed miracles. Then how did the miracles not make him divine and the Son of God?

50? Come on Bart, if the letters existed where do you think they would be now? Maybe the Vatican Archives. A library nobody has access too that's guarded like fort Knox and the size of 3 football fields...? Maybe? Lol It's time you scholars told the Pope the jigg is up and please unlock the Archive's. We all deserve know the truth. The whole truth.

Great lecture series. I wish he had spoken at my school when I was still in university

Well, it is useful to understand that Constantine discovered that all the soldiers at the Milvian Bridge were Christians, The legions had been covertly Christian since the Talking Cross ratified the unilateral covenant cutting ceremony begun with the splitting of Jesus on the Cross. The legions Constantine brought back from Britain had comingled with the Druids and the Chi Rho symbol his Legions painted on their shiels was a Druid totem and represented the moral advantage that won the battle, Constantine didn't so much convert to Christianity as to accept the reality of his troops, Tertullian had observed that there were more Christian Pagans in Rome than polytheist. Bart is from the Gospel according to those who were scared shitless of going to Vietnam, such as Jimmy Tabor, He is in denial of the reality of the Roman anchor of Christianity, All his demographic shit is true enough, N.T. Wright's interpretation of Paul reflects the theological basis of the Talking Cross and the necessity of Pilate's lost euangelion as the basis of the Synoptic Gospels, The Gospel of Mark was in circulation by 40 CE

I resonate with Philips journey so much Been a believer for over 50 yrs. I no longer see God as a violent being. The Bible has errors and is not infallible. I guess I'm a heretic; I'm in good company with followers of Jesus who challenged the dogmatic and abusive church, who valued law above the Grace that Jesus lived out in his life

The question is asked by Dr Ehrman what made Christianity so popular in the third century.? It is my opinion that the church in Rome made some adaptations to the Christian faith familiar to the every day polytheist. Praying to statues of Saints was much like praying to different gods because. The Liturgy was in Latin, a language that you’re every day polytheistic pagan was not fluent. Text of the Bibles were also written in Latin, which a smaller portion or percentage of the general population could read and understand the holy scriptures. But church leader ship evolved into a hierarchy like the Hebrew religion with scribes and Pharisees, also, the Catholic Church had its “scribes and Pharisees“. The practices of the Roman Catholic Church were welcoming to pagan believers who still held onto their sin. Habits could easily forgiveness through the recitation of Hail Mary and our fathers. Many early Christians did not believe that they were responsible to study in a meaningful depth their religion. All they had to do if they had questions was go ask a priest. The strategy, of course, is most effective when there are no longer apostles, performing miracles.

Jesus was the equivalent of a KZbinr for his time. He would have definitely done ad reads for Raid Shadow Legends 😂

In the Hebrew original Ezekiel talks about the size of gods penis when god comes to visit while riding on his chariot throne. Why dont christians talk about the size of gods manhood? What are they hiding? Is the size in cubits being held in the vaticans secret archives? WE DESERVE TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!!

Being one with the Consciousness of God (living in God’s Consciousness, or in Reality) is not the same as being God. Why is that so hard to understand, We share in that Reality we are not that Reality. Jesus never claimed to be God. Unlike us he had full conscious awareness of his relationship to God and that is called Christ Consciousness, Whatever Ehrman is going through he should see a counselor in order to figure it out. He does not have to inflict his problem or his conflict on the rest of humanity..

Politics is religion and religion is politics. Somebody trying to get a vote. Then when they do, they can't hold true to it.

Quantum mechanics explains that binary does not work

The skepticism of Dr. Ehrman explained and his views and heresy.

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My main question is why is this man giving credibility in the Christian world? He is a non-believer that loves to mislead and twist scripture. 1. He is constantly gaping and refusing to link the Holy spirits relativity in scripture. 2. He is not a man of faith in Jesus textual fact.

I sure enjoyed Bart's talk but the questions afterward were bizarre.

Pretty selective about the information too the point of dishonesty !

What's up s a ? Supreme authority

Disturbing.

first pyramid scheme

"If your happiness depends on the opinions of others, You have the problem not them." (Richard Bach; "Illusions")

Same with ‘ miracles ‘ at Lourdes

I find the position on Constantine having converted to Christianity in 312 or long before his death to be very speculative. For one, the accounts of Esebius and Lactantius appear to be written for children. This hard core Constantine guy who had his son and wife killed felt that a cross made him win a battle. Laughable argument. It is pretty obvious that Constantine thought that Christianity had great potential in the context of exercising power on the empire. But did he believe in Jesus himself, doubtful. Did he believe as a pagan converted to Christianity in that time would ? Highly unlikely because of his upbringing and focus on power not on making sense of the after life or moral issues. He liked the idea of a single god, bearing in mind that many emperors had been elevated to the rank of gods after their death lowered the value of god. He liked the promises made by Christianity. He liked the appeal it had to people in the empire. He liked the growth of the structure of the church. If he had a vision it was not seeing a cross but seeing the potential for power coming from that new religion. Constantine's conception of religion by his upbringing made him a stranger to Christianity. It is more likely that Constantine converted at the end of his life, not because of the baptism, not because of the faith he had, not even because of the promise of heaven (I would bet he thought that was laughable), but for the future generations. By converting to a religion that he believed had the potential to become a great power in itself, he tied his house to that religion. It was a power play. He was a true Roman Emperor after all. He was not wrong since his successors did use Christianity as a power structure. So why did Constantine not do it himself ? He did not do it himself in part because he did not believe in Jesus, in part because he thought he might fail. Ave Valerius Constantius. Of course this is all speculative but to me it makes more sense than confusing Sol Invictus with Jesus and loving Jesus.

This is fantastic! I’ve been watching a lot of John Gamer’s lectures at Centre Place, and I’m glad KZbin recommended this

Nero sounds like the Vulture Capitalists in Florida. They want property that has folks who have lived in their homes for 50 years. New construction is surrounding these neighborhoods, of which the infrastructure to properly prevent flooding of the older neighborhoods is purposely neglected. The same homes begin to flood with every storm, insurance increases every 6 months, soon families can not afford homeowners, the next wipes them out, they lose their homes and the waiting Vultures swoop in paying pennies on the dollar. Of course, magically the state finds the money to repair infilstucture, the Vultures build and suffer no flooding. Nero's folks went the fire route. lol

If you manage to get Bart Ehrman to give a lecture, give him as much time as he needs.

Great 3 part lecture

"Atheist Reverend" is an oxymoron :)

Erhman is indeed a great teacher (as are many teachers, true). But he seems to be an especially skilled one in delivering knowledge. ONE QUESTION:- If Christians were persecuted in some Mediterranean cities/regions because they were found to be refraining from propitiating local deities (thereby failing in civic duty), then was the similarly migrant minority community, the Jews, who were also fiercely monotheistic, also similarly prosecuted when they refused to propitiate the local pantheon? Are there records - either in Jewish history or in parallel other histories - of such persecution of Jews?

Only about 12 minutes on Constantine, and nothing insightful.

....ok TaterHead, lets see whatcha got this time.

Another great lecture. I know one day you will carry on with you're great passion in the after life, because you will not realize that you are dead, and I will be there listening to you.😂😂😂

Total dumbo. CHRISTIANITY IS THE PRODUCT OF HUMAN RELIGIOUS EVOLUTION, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

I live in the east, most people already believed there is a supreme being, you may say God but we call it "Shang Di", "Hyang Widhi", etc, from 2500 BC. Well, because of atheism, communism, etc which come from western, turn the world into chaos with your intelligence. How does people from 2500 BC could belived in God but now you don't?

I guess Thomas Jefferson wasn't a good Christian at all when he edited his own "Bible" that took out any mention of miracles, I grew up Catholic so accounts of miracles (some approved by the Vatican, others not so much) were all over the place if you were serious about the faith and to most the whole religion depends on one miracle in particular and that is Jesus rising from the dead so I guess this topic is baked into the DNA of the religion. In other words for most if there's no miracles at all then there's no Christianity (once I stopped believing in the Resurrection four years ago that's when I knew I was no longer a Christian in any meaningful way even while I was trying to fit in with more liberal communities like the Episcopalians). Knowing that a lot of the aspects of this religion are basically leftovers from late Antiquity and the early Medieval period has helped me in my deconstruction more than anything else and I'm grateful to Ehrman as usual for his scholarship and expertise.

Jesus is the devil Repent accept jahovah and do good works

The Christian god Jesus is Satan the devil and he is not coming back Christians worship Satan with a human sacrifice of Jesus to Satan You’ve been deceived Repent accept jahovah and do good works

Christianity comes from the devil through his deceiple Saul of tarsus Repent accept jahovah and do good works

The Christian god Jesus is Satan the devil and he is not coming back Christians worship Satan with a human sacrifice of Jesus to Satan You’ve been deceived Repent accept jahovah and do good works