Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned Bible scholar

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

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Welcome back to misquoting Jesus. This week we are talking about Jesus as God. It's one of the

central tenets of many denominations of modern Christianity, and the Nicene Creed describes him as

of one being with the father. But just how old

is this idea? If you asked Jesus' disciples if he was man or God, would they have affirmed his

divinity or accused you of blasphemy? And if Jesus was divine, then was he considered to be God-made flesh,

a human with some divine features, or something else entirely. As always, Bart is here to shed

some light on the subject. And we're not going to be doing our weekly check-ins at the moment,

because we are filming in advance. Bart is traveling in the UK, and I'm on the Isle of Sky with

my family, and I definitely don't have internet where I am.

So.

Yeah, but you've got the Isle of Sky.

I do.

I have the Isle of Sky, which is beautiful and perfect.

So the next few episodes are just going to be us diving straight into it while future us enjoy family time.

But before we get into Jesus specifically, I wanted to talk a little about

the boundary between mortals and the divine worlds in the ancient worlds. I feel it was a much more

permeable membrane for ancient people than it probably is for us today. You've got things like

divine kingship in ancient Egypt. There's instances of human divinization

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