Re: What Bible? (Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels)

I ran across a very revealing (and admittedly, disturbing) article about
Bart Ehrman that might be of interest to those of you following this
thread:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR2006030401369.html

The story chronicles Ehrman's journey from disinterested youth to
fundamentalist at Moody Bible Institute to becoming a disbeliever while
doing graduate work in textual criticism.

It is a sad story. While I do not agree with the conclusions Ehrman came
to regarding the trustworthiness of historic, Christian faith, I can
definitely appreciate the emotional component: the all-or-nothing,
gut-wrenching sense of thinking that he had to decide between
fundamentalist faith and no real faith at all. What a tragedy.

Whether it is textual criticism or science, I am sure that there are
ASA'ers on this list who can probably relate. I just wish he had found
another way --- maybe there will be an opportunity for him to encounter
God's grace again in Christ at a later stage in his journey.

I can only pray for that and trust that God will make Himself known to
Bart Ehrman.

Blessings in Him,

Clarke Morledge
College of William and Mary
Information Technology - Network Engineering
Received on Tue Mar 14 18:08:37 2006