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For the only reason (I came to think) for God to inspire the Bible would be so that his people would have his actual words; but if he really wanted to have his actual words, surely he would have miraculously preserved those words, just as he had miraculously inspired them in the first place.

— Bart D. Ehrman Misquoting Jesus (2005)

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Paul knows one of [Jesus's] brothers personally. It is hard to get much closer to the historical Jesus than that. If Jesus never lived, you would think that his brother would know about it.

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Historians can establish only what probably happened in the past, but miracles, by their very nature, are always the least probable explanation for what happened.

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Even though Jesus may be the only miracleworking Son of God that people know about today, there were lots of people like this in the ancient world.

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