{"id":3856,"date":"2014-04-19T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2014-04-19T01:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T06:16:16","slug":"is-jesus-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3856","title":{"rendered":"IS JESUS GOD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"irc_mimg\"><a id=\"irc_mil\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;docid=3gJunXr9icZCpM&amp;tbnid=BS_i_Pjnp_i5zM:&amp;ved=0CAUQjRw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2F1peter315.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F08%2F13%2Fbart-ehrman-on-the-testimonium-flavianum%2F&amp;ei=adFRU7PBAqLa2AWT1ICQBQ&amp;bvm=bv.65058239,d.b2I&amp;psig=AFQjCNHQkCuagpkG4wqH-eTyZc0INB82Ug&amp;ust=1397957247654226\" data-ved=\"0CAUQjRw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 84px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/301946\/6460085\/explore\/images\/2008\/03\/18\/bart_ehrman_author_of_gods_problem.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The man in the picture is biblical scholar and agnostic, Bart Ehrman.\u00a0 His story of leaving the Christian faith is well-known.\u00a0 His books are widely read and vigorously debated.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>In my own correspondence with Ehrman I found him quite candid about doubt.\u00a0 He admitted that how one chooses to look at the evidence for the Bible&#8217;s reliability greatly influences what conclusion one comes to.\u00a0 For one scholar who came to a wholly different conclusion than Ehrman:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/april-web-only\/how-god-became-jesus-and-how-i-came-to-faith-in-him.html?paging=off\">http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/april-web-only\/how-god-became-jesus-and-how-i-came-to-faith-in-him.html?paging=off<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man in the picture is biblical scholar and agnostic, Bart Ehrman.\u00a0 His story of leaving the Christian faith is well-known.\u00a0 His books are widely read and vigorously debated. In my own correspondence with Ehrman I found him quite candid about doubt.\u00a0 He admitted that how one chooses to look at the evidence for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,72,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-doubt","category-faith","category-intellectuals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}