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Jesus Before the Gospels by Bart Ehrman | A Critique by John Warwick Mon...

COMMENTARY:

Bart Ehrman is the Ayn Rand of liberal Christian theology. There is a psychosis in operation here that President Trump just revealed relative to his on-going response to Charlottesville,  The difference between Bart Ehrman and Ayn Rand is that she authentically believed that the shit she constructed was revealed wisdom, while Bart Ehrman is just a lying piece of shit who has discovered he can sell a whole lot more books saying "Hell to YOU, Jesus, and the butt-hole buddy the Holy Spirit you rode in on" than "Hallelujah" Christ is RISEN!"

At 45:16 in the video, Ehrman is recorded as saying publically that 1st Century Jews had no concept of either history or "Transcendent Truth".  He is half right about history: what he means is that all history was ad hoc and particular to that writer. That's the important thing to understand: these people had no reliable way to record events and pass that understanding of those events across the ages, which means they had no history, conceptual or recorded.

Well, that's pure bullshit wrapped around the reality that our concept of history, is very Hegelian and Hegel couldn't happen until Isaac Newton happened and Kant demonstrated the epistemological significance of that as a mechenism of inquiry.  Chronology, as a structure of history is identical for Tacitus and Hegel.  What Hegel has that Tacitus didn't was Newton's transliteration of karma into the measurable relationship of action to reaction which has been assumed in engineering as well as history since well before the time of Tacitus, but Newton brought it forward in a useful gestalt and that gestalt transfers neatly to the forces of history Hegel pioneered and Bart Ehrman now assumes represents a unique product of the Enlightenment.  

When considering the sophistry of Bart Ehrman (or Richard Carrier or Richard Dawkins or any of the purely mercenary anti-theist of that ilk), add into your calculus that the Egyptians had the social organization necessary to put men on the moon, but they didn't have Isaac Newton and Isaac Newton wouldn't have happened if the resurrection is a fraud.  He, Bart Ehrman, wouldn't have this gig employing the Socratic method to trash Chritianity,

The second part of his statement at 45:16, if it was to be developed as a Freshman Thesis in a Chapel Hill history class, he'd fail the course.  John 1:1 - 18 is a hymn to Jesus as the essence of Platonic Transcendent Truth.  I belive the author of the Gospel of John is John Mark, son of Mary of Jerusalem, whose home tends to assume to be the venue of the Last Supper, and that John Mark was in Alexander running the manusript copyists producing the Gospels of Mark, beginning no later than 50, but probably 47 and that the Gospel of Mark was written in 40 by Cornelius, the centurion featured in Acts 10, and, beginning about the same time Paul issued his Epistle to the Romans, the Gospel of Matthew,

That's a long, confusing sentence, but work it out. The important thing is that John Mark was in Alexandria when Philo of Alexandria was a leading mid-Platonic scholar, 1700 years or so before the ne-Platonism of the Enlightenment,  John Mark imported Platonic Transcendent Truth into Christianity whole cloth.  Bart Ehrman is either too stupid to make the connection between Plato of the Enlightenment with the Gospel of John or his specializaation in textual criticism has produced a cultural myopia which defeats normal cross-discipline intellectual pollination the liberal arts cirriculum  is specifcally designed to create (which, as a graduate of a rigid Evangelical undergraduate and masters study, is entirely probable) to the extent he was never introduced to Plato except in the "Plato: BAD!" context of Protestant apologists, generally.

Or, he's just a lying piece of shit determined to create the moral confusion most congenial to his position on the New York Times Best Seller List, which he covets above all things, especially Transcendent Truth.

I have additonal observations on this video, but that's for another day, Stay tuned.