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Monday, October 17, 2011

Bart Ehrman Explains Why He Doesn't Criticize the Qur'an

Muslims love to quote Bart Ehrman, because Ehrman criticizes the New Testament. Of course, if Muslims would pay more careful attention to what Ehrman says about the New Testament, they'd realize that his claims refute Islam in two important ways.

First, Ehrman believes that the New Testament is extremely reliable. While he holds that it hasn't been perfectly preserved, that it contains contradictions, and that it isn't the inspired Word of God, Ehrman maintains that we can gather a ton of information about Jesus and early Christianity from the New Testament. Significantly for Muslims, Ehrman says that Jesus' death by crucifixion is indisputable, which thoroughly undermines Muhammad's position.

Second, if Muslims were to apply Ehrman's standards to the Qur'an, they would realize that the Qur'an fails miserably. The Qur'an hasn't been perfectly preserved, it contains numerous contradictions (by Ehrman's standards), and it is far less valuable as a historical source than is the New Testament.

Why, then, doesn't Ehrman criticize the Qur'an and silence the Muslims who appeal to his works? As he admits in the following clip, he doesn't criticize the Qur'an because he's worried that Muslims will kill him if he does. In other words, just as Trey Parker and Matt Stone will gladly mock Christianity on South Park, but won't dare mock Muhammad, so also Bart Ehrman will happily criticize the Bible, while remaining silent on the Qur'an. Why? Because Muslims slaughter people over the Qur'an, cartoons, etc., while Christians don't. Having the most violent religion in history has its privileges.

13 comments:

MalbecMemoirs said...

David! I've wondered about this for over 3 years! I can't believe you found this clip! Passing this to every Muslim I know.

Neil said...

What a coward. This is why Islam is growing, not because of it's validity, but because people are too afraid and not committed enough to what is right to stand up to evil.

Kneel said...

What a coward. The only reason Islam gains a foothold in the world is because people are more committed to self-preservation than they are to what is right and true.

andy bell said...

This is nothing new. The south park guys, monty python, penn & teller, hell I even heard Lawrence O'donnell of Msnbc refuse to criticize islam for fear of their lives. Those are just off the top of my head.

Dk said...

South Park creators/producers have several times NOT backed down despite threats of certain groups.

Tychicus said...

Ehrman's critique is based on the inherent contradiction between the "restoration of the NT Text" and the evangelical doctrine of inerrancy. The Christian community needs to reject this concept that anything in the NT text was "restored". As with all liberal critiques he rejects all external evidence and bases his critique on the subjective use of internal evidence only.
Those of us that adhere to the Majority text are unmoved by his nonsense.
I have reviewed a lot of evidence concerning Mark 16. Here is a web site that
has two very good pages on the issues at hand.
http://www.curtisvillechristian.org/MarkOne.html
http://www.curtisvillechristian.org/Misquoting.html
http://www.rblist.org/1689.pdf
Courage and Godspeed,
-Tychicus

Pierre said...

Fear is the force that drives Islam. Bart Ehrman is afraid that some unknown, unseen, devout Muslim will come from out of nowhere and kill him.

He is right.

You can read my thesis on exactly how fear controls Islam at: http://islamsfatalflaw.blogspot.com/

Here is the beginning.

Would you wear a T-shirt with a Mohammad cartoon printed on it?

You might in Montana. Don’t try it in Mecca.

Why?

Because, Islam trains a small number of its most devout believers it’s OK to kill. And Islamic killers have been trained to kill anyone who insults Allah and/or Mohammad.

In Montana you’d have a good chance none of these Islamic killers would see you.

In Mecca you wouldn’t last five minutes. One of Islam’s killers would come from out of nowhere and kill you. It is that simple.

You don’t believe me? Ask any Muslim!

Tom said...

Hah! Ehrman's unwillingness to criticize the unholy GRRRRAN because of the violence of the adherents of Islamic ideology sort of sez everything we need to know about the "Religion of Peace", now doesn't it?

ROFL! KAFIR AND PROUD!!

Imraan said...

What a load of bull.I'm a devouted Muslim and proud Muslim.There is no God exept Allah and Mohammad is his Final Phrophet.Islam is increasing through the mercy of Allah on humanity.Christians will do anything to bring Islam to its knees ,which is impossible .Christian are misleaded through man made religion.

donna60 said...

Imraan,
The battle against Islam is the LORD's, and the battle has been won.

Africa is already leaving Islam at the tune of 6 million souls every year. 75% of all American converts leave Islam within five years of conversion.

Translated, that means that 75% of the Muslim converts on youtube, have left the religion already. Americans who felt empty under denominational Christianity, are not getting spiritually fed with Islam--only more hunger.

Alex Humphrey said...

I agree with you except for the South Park guys. They have repeatedly tried to mock Muhammad and the network has repeatedly shut them down.

Ahmed Khan said...

Bart Erhman is New Testament Scholar who has studied Greek extensively to know the inherent contradictions between the Greek and the English translations. He has the education to make an academic comparison. He is not an Arabic scholar nor a Qur'anic one and he never claimed to be. If he said that he is not going to reveal Qur'anic contradictions because of fear, that is legitimate in the current state of affairs of the world. Unfortunately. It is however incorrect to pin the violence on Islam itself. Islam does not condone this behavior but politics does. In order to be classified as a legitimate scholar of the Qur'an, you must know scholarly Arabic and extensive history of Islam. Neither of which he has claimed to be a scholar of. He is as about as good as Wikikpedia. This whole issue with him is very lame and a waste of time on your part.

David Wood said...

Ahmed,

One doesn't need to be an Arabic scholar to know that the Qur'an has been changed numerous times and that Islam calls for the violence against critics. Just click on the "Quran" and "Jihad" tabs on this site to see what your own sources plainly declare. If you're going to say that no one can understand anything about Islam without being an Arabic scholar, then you're telling us that Islam is absolutely useless to most people.