Growing up in the Anglican Church in rural Britain, I wasn't aware at all of the term

born-again Christian. It wasn't really until I moved to the US in my early 20s that I

really started to understand what it meant. Today on misquoting Jesus, we're talking about what this term means,

how a born-again Christian considered themselves different to other Christians, and what Jesus would have thought about the whole thing. As a former born-again Christian considered themselves different to other Christians and what Jesus would

have thought about the whole thing. As a former born-again Christian, Dr. Bart Ehrman is here to

explain all of this and more. 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.

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

Hello everybody, welcome back to misquoting Jesus, but how are you doing Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to misquoting Jesus. But how are you doing today?

Yeah, I'm doing well. I've got one of these colds that people are getting, like half of my students.

And that's probably why I'm getting it. But it's one of these kind of colds that linkers on forever and ever but uh actually i feel okay about it so it's not not horrible how about you you got the cold yet not yet not yet

thankfully my neighbors are all down with stomach flu so we're keeping our distance i messaged her

this morning and said can we have a play date tomorrow because all the kids are off school and she said

megan you do not want what is currently going around our family.

So we're postponing that one.

Okay. Yeah, right. In the hope we don't get it. Yeah. Yeah. Best approach. Yeah. Okay. Good. Okay. Good. Good. Thank you. Now then, today on misquoting Jesus, we're going to be talking about what exactly a born-again Christian is, which is interesting because I'm still not 100% sure that I know. So I'm going to be learning something as well. Later in the show, we also have information on a brand new course, the rise and fall of biblical Israel, the books of Joshua, judges, Samuel and Kings. That's going to be

taken by Dr. Jacob Wright, who is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Emory University. And in today's

bonus segment, Bart is going to be tackling more listeners questions. So please stay with us for all of

that fantastic stuff. Before any of that fantastic stuff, we have an even more fantastic conversation. So,

Bart, I want to open by asking if you could tell us a little bit about your experience with being

born again. Yeah, right. So this is, it was a very important kind of event in my life. And I,

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