When Bart Ehrman was a young Evangelical Christian, he wanted to know how God became a man, but now, as an agnostic and historian of early Christianity, he wants to know how a man became God. When and ...
When people ask why Christ came, the usual answer is to say that he came to redeem us. And that is certainly true. But what exactly does that mean? If it means that he came merely to remit our sins, ...
Earlier this year Harper released Bart Ehrman’s “How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee” that should cinch his place, after 25-or-so other critiques of the Christian ...
In the New Testament, the Gospels tell the story of Jesus’ birth—the first Christmas. Set during the rise of the Roman Empire, the stories create a radiant image of a young couple giving birth to the ...
But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the law and the prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus ...
“John the Baptist called Jesus the Lamb of God because Jesus is too holy and wonderful for him to even untie his shoes,” says Mitchell, 8. Before John the Baptist proclaimed Jesus as the Lamb of God, ...