How Wild Can it Get? The Diversity of Early Christianity
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
You think Christianity is diverse today? Fundamentalists? Roman Catholics? Mormons? Methodists? Branch Davidians? Episcopalians? Russian Orthodox? And on and on?
In fact, the wide varieties of Christian today pale in comparison with what you could find in antiquity, with beliefs that virtually defy belief. How could people with views that seem so far beyond the pale (that there were many gods? That the Creator was evil? That Christ never died?) call themselves Christian and claim they were following the teachings of Jesus? That's what we discuss in today's podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, |
| 0:12.8 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:24.3 | Today's episode focuses on schisms within early Christianity. What did early Christian groups believe? |
| 0:30.3 | Why were their beliefs so different and how did they deal with their contradictory claims? |
| 0:35.1 | Also, what happened to them? Why don't they exist anymore? |
| 0:38.7 | But before that, but good morning. How are you doing this week? Yes, good morning. I'm doing well. |
| 0:45.2 | Classes are going along. And as you know, I was on leave last semester. And so I'm introduced to a new |
| 0:52.0 | form of reality, the old form of reality. |
| 0:56.0 | And I was thinking the other day, you know, I started teaching in 1984. |
| 1:00.5 | I told my students at Chapel Hill that I first started teaching there in 1988. |
| 1:04.6 | They started looking at each other. |
| 1:06.1 | Like, oh, my God. |
| 1:07.7 | My parents were grade school. |
| 1:10.8 | So it's an old reality. But here we go again. God, my parents were grade school. |
| 1:14.4 | So it's an old reality, but here we go again. |
| 1:15.9 | I think on your end. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, really good. |
| 1:17.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:21.0 | You've got this other thing going on, this digital homerobie thing? |
| 1:21.8 | What is that? |
| 1:30.4 | Yeah, digital hammerobie is, it's a public outreach and education YouTube channel and podcast, and we self-publish various books, aiming to make Mesopotamia and the ancient world more accessible to interested |
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