Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them)

• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus)
• God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer
• Who Wrote the Bible?
• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
• Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
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• The authors of the New Testament have diverging views about who Jesus was and how salvation works





• The New Testament contains books that were forged in the names of the apostles by Christian writers who lived decades later





• Jesus, Paul, Matthew, and John all represented fundamentally different religions





• Established Christian doctrines—such as the suffering messiah, the divinity of Jesus, and the trinity—were the inventions of still later theologians