{"id":2929,"date":"2011-04-23T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/new-book-says-the-bible-was-forged\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T01:36:50","slug":"new-book-says-the-bible-was-forged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/23\/new-book-says-the-bible-was-forged\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Says The Bible Was Forged"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Book Assailing Bible as \u2018Forged\u2019 Promotes Fakery<\/h1>\n

By Jerry Newcombe<\/p>\n

A new book by a major New Testament scholar is sure to make mincemeat of many people\u2019s faith. Needlessly. The scholar is the iconoclastic Bart Ehrman, who teaches religion at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

Ehrman, whose book is titled \u201cForged: Why the Bible\u2019s Authors Are\u00a0\"Bible,Not Who We Think They Are,\u201d said on a radio broadcast that about 75 percent of the New Testament documents are supposedly forged. They\u2019re frauds.<\/p>\n

Sam Lamerson, a conservative New Testament scholar who teaches at Knox Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., heard Ehrman on a radio broadcast say words to this effect: \u201cI want to be the scholar that uses the F-word about the Bible. I want people to know that these books were forged.\u201d (By way of full disclosure, I\u2019ll note that I earned a theology degree at Knox.)<\/p>\n

\u201cForged\u201d is a strong word. Several of the New Testament books claim no authorship at all. Church tradition has attributed them to various writers, but the biblical text itself does not claim authorship for these particular books. For instance, none of the four Gospels (of which tradition names the writers as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) actually has the names of the authors at the beginning of their documents.<\/p>\n

But if a document is anonymous, how could it be a forgery?<\/p>\n

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from Newsmax Book Assailing Bible as \u2018Forged\u2019 Promotes Fakery By Jerry Newcombe A new book by a major New Testament scholar is sure to make mincemeat of many people\u2019s faith. Needlessly. The scholar is the iconoclastic Bart Ehrman, who teaches religion at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ehrman, whose book is titled \u201cForged: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}