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"The construction of Jesus" by Bart Ehrman, H & O Editions

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With "The construction of Jesus " editions H & O are known in France the immense work of analysis and research of the American theologian Bart Ehrman ; this book, very accessible, we did follow a very thorough investigation on this key figure in the history appointed "Jesus" and all New Testament writings.

Jesus is all the more essential in our civilization in the name of men and women have "built" several churches, have promulgated dogmas have shaped the law, allowed characters also "constructed" in part, like Paul, to print to the world a terrible record of fire and blood with what they considered to be "good" and what they thundered to be the "evil"!

Paul's writings for example, have considerably night to the woman and returned convictions against homosexuality from obscure Leviticus forgetting that neither Exodus nor Numbers, or Deuteronomy in the Old Testament or the Gospels of his time, by including those considered Apocrypha today (a good score), have never said anything like that ...

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authors and philosophers Michel Onfray as have more than one book, openly denounced these criminal tampering or these "constructs" unhealthy, to quote one of the key terms of the book by Bart Ehrman, who still badly polluted our contemporary societies. It is not vain to get back into the founding documents that touch the very root of all the "construction" of mental western society and all those that refer to books called "Saints" because at the beginning of XXIst century clerics of various backgrounds to the Pope continues to hammer the same speech that multiple people trying to make them feel guilty about what they are intrinsically:

"As human beings (homosexuals) are worthy of respect (...) they should not be rejected because of it. Respect for the human being is quite fundamental and decisive. But this does not mean that homosexuality is just as much. It remains (homosexuality) something that is opposed to the essence of what God originally intended, "dixit Benedict XVI in his latest book" Light of the World. "

We are at the heart of the problem is to say what that "God originally intended? As nobody was present to the interviewer or the film is through the sacred writings we can try to understand this message. It is interviewing all the books of the Bible and especially the New Testament books that we will try to approach this "divine teaching" and this is where the researcher, theologian and thereafter simply player or just a believer, going from one surprise because it happened to us is that together with fragments of words, sometimes incoherent or inconsistent, that the first or religious scribes wanted to enrich their fill of fancy or literary way, in these conditions can now claim to know what God originally intended ?

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Bart Ehrman, himself a very religious when it arrives at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1978, will see its certainties melt before he gradually discovers in his studies from all parts of the New Testament and all other non selected by the "canon" to the test of "historical criticism" and "textual criticism", not to mention the "historical perspective" which puts the events and behaviors in their socio-historical. Thus, on the topic of homosexuality, for example, how can we refer to today about Paul for opposing our current designs for the notion of "sexual orientation" and "homosexuality" are concepts created in the nineteenth century and twentieth century and therefore did not exist in antiquity "One can hardly take prescriptions Paul on homosexual relations, and root out the presuppositions of Paul on sex and gender, and transplant them into another discourse on sex and gender."

But the official line of every church has always been to stop at the letter without trying to understand the context or to ask relevant questions by comparing for example to some other texts, because the contradictions and versions different swarm in the Gospels and other writings.

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Unfortunately, the men behind their traditions like the great apes in equatorial forests of palms. That is why a book as brilliant as it should enable everyone to have a fair idea about these "testimonials" and the various adventures of their creation in order to see clearly how Christianity has developed!

Another finding also edifying, that speaks volumes the mechanisms that drive human societies is the cruel lack of interest in Bible-believers! Bart Ehraman returns repeatedly in his study: " For me, this is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: how much can people venerate the Bible, think it 's acts of a revelation of God to his people and at the same time to know so badly? ".

must also say that since the exegetical studies have begun to grow and be independent churches, there are about more than two centuries, rarely the findings of researchers were able to reach the general public and it spread. Today, following books and outreach programs as Corpus Christi in the late 90s, the public can finally reach what was known of a small number of researchers.

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those who cloak themselves in the pages of the Gospels gaps in the Epistles Patchwork or assorted texts of the Old Testament writings for centuries and centuries after the events narrated, and who think they know " what God originally intended " we can only advise to read carefully this book very accessible, very clearly, where the author is hiding not behind a remote and scientific discourse but also tells us about his career as a man and a believer, to finally put things right Believers face the aggressive creationists blissful, enlightened and without culture.

To conclude, I quote these two passages that are the essential cornerstones of this survey on the figure of "Jesus": "It is better to promote readings that do not lead to sexism, racism, bigotry and oppression in all its forms " because" must judge everything we hear and what we see-inspiring prose of the Bible or Shakespeare, or Dostoevsky George Eliot, Gandhi, Desmond Tutu or the Dalai Lama. "

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On Bart Ehrman wikipedia article

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On the same theme AFP: AFP dispatch

On creationism: wikipedia article