Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity
Part 4: Question: Bart Ehrman asserts that Jesus never claimed to be God. Instead the later Christians attributed divinity to Jesus because they were influenced by surrounding pagan ideas and especially by the influence of Jewish angelology at that time. How would you evaluate the historical basis for Ehrman’s assertion?
Discussants: Dr. Ng Kam Weng and Mr. Micheal Lim
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Was the early Christian belief in the deity of Jesus influenced by non-Christian ideas?
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