Different Christian denominations have different beliefs about the Bible, and those who leave the faith have different ideas again.

Today, Dr. Bart Erman joins me to talk about how his changing beliefs impacted his views on the Bible,

and why he finally changed his mind about all of them.

Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling 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.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Welcome back everybody to misquoting Jesus, where today we are talking about what pre-deconversion Bart believed about the Bible and why he changed his mind.

We've also got our bonus

segment, listeners question right at the end, where I'll be asking Bart in what language he reads

the Bible. But before any of that, how are you doing today?

Yeah, I'm doing pretty well. Not too bad. I'm getting a little bit more downtime, which is never downtime,

but it's time to do some other reading and things. And so it's all good. It's all good. Yeah.

I keep hearing about what Sarah does teaching classes and dissertation committees and department meetings

and faculty politics. I'm thinking, oh my God, I'm glad out of that.

I was going to ask if you were jealous hearing about all the things that she's doing.

No.

No, except the teaching, none of that sounds like fun.

Yeah, no, that's right.

Yeah, how are you doing?

Yeah, very well, thank you.

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