How Jesus Became God - UCC Part 1 of 3 

As a non believer Dr Ehrman understands the bible better than those who profess to believe it. Excellent exposition.

I have watched so many of these lectures that now I'm dying to see how good dinner at the Armadillo Grill is - I'm picturing endless grilled fish and bottomless bread loves with a water fountain that produces the finest wine

I enjoy Dr. Ehrman's teaching style. He seems accessible and not at all full of himself. His sense of humor is a plus.

Jesus never wrote a word down. Let that really sink in...

Thank you Dr. Ehrman for posting these lectures. You could have instead sold DVDs to cash in like a televangelist, but you chose to spread knowledge for its own sake. Wonderful.

These three videos represent one of your best lectures, Professor Ehrman. Your case is logical, rational, evidences by the facts, and plausible. Thank you very much for these fantastic videos!

you handled the topic well sir...you lectured in a very civil and profesional way, without really hurting anybody or anyone...that it became so acceptable and so convincing.

I love that dry delivery haha, " I am da vine, you are da branches" -crickets-

I have learned so much from Bart. I am an atheist/agnostic. For anyone who wants to really get into the reasons for their skepticism, who wants to defend their unbelief, Bart's teachings will give them a firm foundation. Thanks for all you do Bart

I love that he laughs at his own jokes. love the sense of humor

I was a bit worried at 39:55 when Dr Ehrman stated that "Jewish apocalypticists said the end was imminent" and immediately looked at his watch.

A brilliant lecture, one of his best. Even if you don't agree with everything he says, it is a pleasure to listen.

Very pleasant presentation. I was already convinced but you opened my eyes even more. I can see now how we'been lied to all this time. Thks!

An extremely fascinating and illuminating series of lectures on a topic that is often unknown or misunderstood, delivered by a great speaker with a serious and sincere interest in academic study. Thank you!

It's certainly great to have these videos to enjoy and broaden my meager education... thank you.

This could all have been avoided if only the Romans had some decent copyright laws. :-b

I really love your videos. My eyes have been opened. I was raised in the kookiest, most fundamental religion you could imagine.

What I most like about Prof Ehrman is his "truthfulness/honesty."

Dr. Erhman has given a very scholarly account of the perceived identity of Jesus Christ.

I have read several of your books and enjoyed then thoroughly. Your vídeos hsve helped me understand several doubts. Thabks for putting then con vídeo. Look forward to more.

Prof Ehrman, Thanks very much for uploading these talks. Much appreciated.

Dr. Ehrman, thank you for all that you've done.

Wow I just got the book "How Jesus became God" and I'm watching the lectures here to follow with it. It's amazing.

man I wouldn't I like to take a look at professor's Ehrman entry quiz.

I don't know how often you read the feedback, but I have found your books and you talks fascinating. Thank you.

Excellent talk. Excellent orator.

Thanks Dr. Ehrman for publishing this informative lecture.

Thanks for sharing your lectures.

What a treat! I've been reading Ehrman's book of the same name and would recommend it without reservation to anyone interested in early Christianity. Time to grab some coffee, can't wait to hear these lectures!

"Jumping in an open grave" was my first impression of Church & Bible as a 12 year-old refugee from the GDR in 1967. At 5 I had vowed to find out how & why we came to be. In 1995 our wedding gift was a large illustrated KJV that I scoured to find a name for our first baby. Living in the jungle on the Far North Coast of Australia, I prayed that God would send someone to teach me the Bible. The very next morning, a carload of JWs pulled up outside our mountain retreat and gave us private Bible studies once a week. In the end we were weirded out by this: "You mean, the same sermon is preached in every Kingdom Hall all over the world?". We were also surrounded by vegetarian SDAs who claimed to go to heaven by keeping the Sabbath - Sunday keepers were the Church of Satan. We were invited to the mansion of the SDA high priest (forgot his name) whose son had recently suicided. On this particular Sabbath, a tradesman arrived to collect his money. So the SDA high priest gave him an envelope with a cheque & instructions "Don't open it til Monday!" to keep the Sabbath Law. Belated, he then drove us all to Church as fast as he could, collecting a $200 speeding fine on the way.... to cut a long story, in 2000 I completed 4 years Theology, Ministry & Evangelism at an Australian Baptist college struggling to apply my own independent critical thinking. I ended up working in cancer research instead but listening to you Dr Ehrman, this little apocalyptic light of mine came back on. Although I believe it is unhealthy to be a pessimist at heart, my optimism is constantly under threat by dictatorships, global warming etc. I will keep listening to you with the expectation of something good to believe in. Thanks

Absolutely brilliant. The depth of knowledge is astounding. Looking forward to watching the rest in this series as well as many other of your lectures.

I wish I could get my Mormon family to watch these lectures with an open mind

Mathew 1:22-23 So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel.” which is translated, “God with us”. It only took reading the first chapter in Mathew to refute his claim that the other Gospels don’t say Jesus is God.

Jason I finished the Q & A session for part one and enjoyed it. You find this facinating because of History. I find it facinating from Theology. Prophecy is a passion of mine and from my viewpoint prophecy is history past, present, and future.

Thank you for the civil and rational lecture.

I love your videos, Dr Bart Ehrman. Thank you very much.

I was brought up as a child in a liberal Presbyterian atmosphere of higher criticism, social gospel, and magnanimous humanism. But God was somewhat real personally but I could never get the relationship between Father and Son. Then entering into junior high, highschool, and early college I totally blacked out to any relationship with God. I found ..um .. other things that interested me in the 60s. Jesus became GOD to me the night I came out of my amnesia by His mercy. And I called out "Jesus, I'm tired. Take me home Jesus" humbled to the uttermost. No professors were around and I didn't know the NT at all. THAT night, to me, I know that Jesus became God. He's been God ever since. And I am sure He will remain God to me unto eternity. Thanks for reading.

I have always thought that words were put into Jesus' mouth by people who wanted to further their own agenda.

just love love love these lectures . in my search to try and wade through all these teachings to get some truth ,this is a fantastic source . thanks so much.you zoom out and give me a clearer picture of the whole story and certainly helps with my confusion. big thanks to Rev. Megan Smith & staff

John 14:28 Jesus says the Father is greater than I am.

Yes! this is what I am talking about RE: uploading new and current talks. keep it up.

Interesting and original thinking. Keep it coming. Thanks

I did really want to learn about Issa (Jesus) peace upon him... and you dr. made it enjoyable and clear. So historically... He didn't claim divinity, nor constructing a new religion. Furthermore he was not crucified, nor killed (at that event particularly). May you all find truth, so it shall set you free.

I keep waiting for someone in the audience to cry bloody murder over the fact that he is debunking the whole god routine. These lectures are worth watching, even though I became a non-believer many years ago. I feel better about everything.

Fascinating lecture, I never bothered to read the Book of Revelation since it was clearly crazy from the first few lines. Now I understand all these bizarre Southern Christian types with their obsession with the devil. In a previous lecture Dr Ehrman explains the added passages at the end of Mark...that explains Evangelicals and their strange obsession with poison and snakes. Things might have been much better if James hadn't published the Bible in the first place.

I like the bit about Mr Ehrman's rock star status because I am a huge fan! I also highly recommend Dale B. Martin. Super entertaining AND clever at the same time.

Dr. Ehrman has undoubtedly worked in this field for a long time and is a great scholar; my problem however, is the inconsistencies l find in his arguments sometimes . He has argued in many presentations that "we don't know what Jesus said; everything is lost ". Interestingly, he's indicating here (46) that there are ways scholars (including himself) can know what Jesus said in the "Son of Man sayings "by using the same accounts he has consistently claimed cannot help us to know what Christ said because "they are problematic ".

(19:11) Anyone who believes that oral tradition spanning 40-60 years had preserved the actual sayings of Jesus before being written down never played telephone as a child.

This is exactly how I was wanting to look at the Bible!

where I was raised people actually believe the bible WAS written in English and only by God’s holy hand and that the book is magical and does not need to be read. You have to believe in the magic and reading it might spoil that so JUSt BELIEVE or go to hell.

Enlightening,, ain't it? Eye opening to those who never really understood the Jesus in the Bible

Absolutely Brilliant ! Open mined congregation at a Congregational "Church". Thank you Dr. Ehrman !

Those quotations at the beginning of the lecture, from John's gospel, can be easily explained without saying they mean Jesus is God. For instance, John 10:30 - "I and my father are one". In John 17 that same idea is applied to the disciples. They are also one with God and Jesus. Are they God too? No. You can go through each of the other ones and dismiss the idea that teach Jesus is God.

How simple explained everything and only people who honestly care about them self will look for the truth

Fascinating lecture

This is brilliant, accessible, beautifully organized. I understand more from this triple whammy than I knew before, and I was not ignorant I. Many thanks

Superb

That is brilliant!

Kudos to the family that bought that farm, I wouldiuld have too.

Your books in Audible are awesome!

Excellent. Such a good teacher.

Excellent !

Prof Ehrman, great work as always. I totally missed the point about Judas being one of the 12 rulers of Israel until you brought it up. Thanks for the edification.

Great lecturer

88 Reasons for Knowing the Rapture will be in 1988! I still have my copy. I thought it might be important in the future.

Good lecture... I learned something new about the words man and "son of man" - Thanks

Amazing study. Thank you!

The Truth is reviled no matter what happens

Interesting point about dualism, But I think that Dualistic thinking made it's way into post-exilic judaism through the contact with the Persians since it resonated very good with the overall Jewish thinking and expectations. Jews were exceptionally good syncretists. Eschatology and angelology grew from that germ, and after 400yrs in the making, no one could wonder why Jesus and even Paul were eschatologists.

Really interesting. Thanks for posting this online Bart. Your genuine enthusiasm and fascination for the subject matter comes across and encourages me to read more of the specific history to this area.

Note that Luke and Acts are admittedly second hand stories collected by the author in the opening verses. To paraphrase: "Hey Theo, here are the hand-me-down stories being told here about this Jesus fellow and his followers."

Super- second time through. ;-)

listening to this guy increases my faith.

If Jesus Is Not God. Then Christianity Is False. No Story. No Comments! Ok, Christianity is Paul's religion.... Let's call it Pauline Religion.

Very interesting...thanks.

If something is in your face all the time tine, you might want to take a closer look at it. Ubiquitousness is really important . Thanks, Dr. Bart.

Excellent. As always for him.

Muslims think Jesus is a prophet..he is called ISA Ibn Mariam son of Mariam in Qur'an.. he was sent as reminder of prophet to confirm Torah and bring new teaching which form basis of gospel.. this man has amazing mind...and yet his lost ..in Islam there's a concept of blessed knowledge the first benefits a person only in this life and the second kinds of knowledge benefits this world and the eternal life ....

Eye opening lectures!

Regardless of your beliefs, it is worth a deep dive into the Bible, if only to understand Western culture. Many common phrases are quoted every day (and often misunderstood - like one hand not knowing etc.).

Thank you very Much Dr Bhart Ehrman for your lectures and knowledge that clarifies a lot things to us .

You make me believe in Jesus! But only in the way you're explaining it!

Reading the comments here, I'm constantly struck just how much people disagree about religion.

Wow, great lecture for those who have vritical thinking skills. I'm not trying to troll people who have strong convictions and beliefs, but it's good to think about basic human thinking and how concepts and stories can evolve in society.

I guess the longer I dive into this stuff the shorter is time between now and me making my Shahada

We need the truth. Whatever it is. :)

Great video

Excellent

Wow, this is interesting.

Fascinating. Illuminating​. Mind blowing.

Would love to see a debate between Bart Ehram and David Wood. Bart clearly does not let his own beliefs and views influence the historical evidence. David on the other hand seems always to be trying to prove himself right rather than lay out the facts.

Moses said, God will raise up a prophet like unto me...Hear ye him!" It is pointing to the Messiah coming in the timetable of Daniel chapter nine! Shalom....

When the earth was not yet formed, the spirit of God hovered above the surface of the water. the question is at that time, what is the container for the water?

Amazing....god is determined by consesus...

UCC = On January 29-31, 2016, three talks at Coral Gables Congregational Church in Coral Gables, Florida.

This is an absolutely fantastic lecture and an excellent book, and I strongly recommend any of Ehrman's works for Christians. So much of what is shoved down people's throats in church is just watered down devotionals, not honest and critical examinations about the validity of biblical claims and church history. Christians never hear this kind of information from your average village pastor. Go read and hold yourself to a higher intellectual standard.

I missed out on this. Never knew bart was in florida. Damn.

Very interesting, but please next time repeat the questions asked in the Q&A.

I’ve heard the trick to remembering how many books in NT but I never remember it

Much of the Credit to me finding my way inside Abrahmic religious pathways- is because of you...