By CNN
Added: Fri, 15 May 2009 23:00:00 UTC

Thanks to Scott for the link.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/15/bible.critic/index.html

CNN -- Just so you know, Bart Ehrman says he's not the anti-Christ.

He says he's not trying to destroy your faith. He's not trying to bash the Bible. And, though his mother no longer talks to him about religion, Ehrman says some of his best friends are Christian.

Ehrman, a best-selling author and a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a biblical sleuth whose investigations make some people very angry. Like the fictional Robert Langdon character played by actor Tom Hanks in the movie "Angels & Demons," he delves into the past to challenge some of Christianity's central claims.

In Ehrman's latest book, "Jesus, Interrupted," he concludes:

Doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus and heaven and hell are not based on anything Jesus or his earlier followers said.

At least 19 of the 27 books in the New Testament are forgeries.

Believing the Bible is infallible is not a condition for being a Christian.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/15/bible.critic/index.html

UPATE: Here's Bart Ehrman on The Colbert Report on 4/09/09 (thanks to Diacanu)

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