Jesus Interrupted, page 19 “Yet it was the problem of suffering, not a historical approach to the Bible that led me to agnosticism.”
On page 19 Dr. Ehrman says that all this study of the original texts really did not matter to him, but what really got him going away for his god was the issue of human suffering in the world. I have read his book on this topic: God’s Problem…, and I have to say here without much explanation that this is probably the weakest work of all his books. That was the first of his books I read and I was disappointed with the reasoning and logic in it. Suffering is not God’s problem, it is our problem. Dr. Bart Ehrman presented no good answers to the problem in the book. I would assume a man of Dr. Ehrman’s caliber to have thoroughly studied the problem and presented his answer to the problem. His answer is to enjoy your goods hedonistically and, oh, if you want to you can serve at the local soup kitchen. Is that all that the agnostic community has to offer the world’s biggest problem? It is the Christian community who is making maximum efforts in the war on suffering. I welcome a discussion of non-Christian organization’s efforts against human suffering.
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