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In this episode, Matt Bates is going to be speaking with Brandt Petrie about his book,

Jesus and Divine Christology, which Nijay Gupta just called his book of the year.

So definitely worth listening to this episode and checking out that book.

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Hello, this is Matthew Bates for On Script.

I want to start by reading a quote from Brant Petrie's new book,

Jesus and Divine Christology.

But the quote itself contains a quote by the agnostic atheist scholar Bart Ehrman.

Here's what Brant Petri has to say.

Though a growing number of scholars agree that Jesus spoke and acted as

if he were a messianic figure, the possibility that he saw himself as divine in some sense is still

often treated as a no-go area. Petrie continues, for example, Bart Ehrman emphasizes that the one

thing contemporary studies of the

historical Jesus all agree on is this, and now I'm quoting from Bart Erman, that Jesus did not

spend his ministry declaring himself to be divine. One of the enduring findings of modern

scholarship on the New Testament and early Christianity over the past two

...