Admins--I think this topic is in the wrong area?? Maybe it should be in Comparitive Religions, or in Inerrancy??
The question for Bible Study is "What does the Bible really mean?" But the OP is opposed to this:
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For this post, I'd just like to say that I want to focus on the historical aspects behind this matter, and not the supernatural ones”so no posts saying 'Jesus really was God, that's why'. We must assume that there is a reasonable, realistic, real-world and non-supernatural-invoking answer to this question.
Ehrman's position is that the Bible says (and means) that Jesus is God, but that the Bible is incorrect on these issues. His concern is not biblical interpretation (the subject of the Bible Study forum), but biblical origins. And he a-priori constrains these origins to be non-supernatural, which is in essence an a-priori disagreement with much of what the Bible clearly says and means.
BTW, for anyone reading Ehrman's more popular book "Misquoting Jesus", I would also recommend reading this book: "Misquoting Truth: A Guide to the Fallacies of Bart Ehrman's "Misquoting Jesus"" by Timothy Paul Jones.
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