Christianity

Question 1

Bart Ehrman 2018

Answer 1

“Matthew and Luke appear to contradict each other in the birth narratives.”

Question 2

Bart Ehrman
Consistency and credibility

Answer 2

Claimed the census from Caesar Augustus didn’t happen, stated it absurd to believe the population tracked and travelled back to their ancestral homes and more so that the Romans called for it. Believed the part of the story was fabricated to fulfil messianic prophecy.

Question 3

Raymond Brown

Answer 3

A Roman Catholic scholar starting the lack of ancient records meant that the historicity of the BN is impossible to determine.

Question 4

Bart Ehrman
Harmonisation and redaction.

Answer 4

“If Matthew is right that they fled to Egypt, how can Luke be right that they returned to Nazareth a month later?”
Chronology and RD means not able to harmonise.

Question 5

Substantial Presence

Answer 5

The council of chalcedon in 451 thought of J. as fully G. and fully human.

‘Without change, without division, without separation.’

Question 6

John Hick Substational Presence

Answer 6

Argued that the historical J. didn’t teach nor ‘apparently believe that he was G., or G. the son.

Question 7

Substantial presence model

Answer 7

Council of Chalcedon 451

Question 8

John Substantial presence

Answer 8

“I and the father are one.”
“The word was made flesh.”

Question 9

John Hick substantial presence

Answer 9

The historical Jesus didn’t teach nor “apparently believe that he was God, or God the son. He points to the fact that the writers wrote long after Jesus’ life and were often not eyewitnesses of what they wrote. Only later gospels portray jesus as G incarnate.