Fresh Air with Terry Gross had an interesting hour with Bart Ehrman; I had heard his name before but this was a great introduction. As is typical with Terry, it was a very personal conversation; I found it quite interesting as he talked about his personal faith. While the interview started with a review of the premise of the book, he talked about his take on biblical passages and his personal faith journey. I started this journal since I felt I was reaching a new place in my faith journey so I had a special interest in this part of the interview.
Reading the excerpt from his book on the Fresh Air website, his story has some parallels with mine. Raised in a church and then kicking it up a notch with the born again crowd. A more serious study that results in finding a deeper understanding but a move away from the mainstream Christian beliefs. While I have studied more theology than the average church goer, I kind of went to sleep faithwise while he made academics his career. Although he now considers himself an agnostic, I still believe there in God but like Marcus Borg
"I simply could no longer believe the orthodox version of the story"and as Bishop Spong says at the end of an excerpt in my blog,
the basic Christian message (is) that God calls us to live, to love and to be.
When asked if he believes in the bible, he says mentioned Ecclesiastes (or Ecclesiasticus) on how there this is all there is to life so enjoy it.
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