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\"\"Ben Witherington just posted the first post<\/a> in what looks like it will be a series on his blog about Bart Ehrman\u2019s most recent book, Forged<\/a>\"\"<\/i>.\n

Since I posted my own review<\/a>, other bloggers who have reviewed or blogged about the book include The Clever Badger<\/a>, Otagosh<\/a>, John Hobbins<\/a>, and Eric Reitan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nick Norelli<\/a> has also posted a review, which ends with the rather strange idea that, in order to appreciate or care about honesty, you have to believe in God. Is his point, I wonder, that since God is said in 2 Chronicles 18<\/a> to send a lying spirit to make prophets prophecy deceitfully, this might be what happened to some of the New Testament authors as well? I don\u2019t get how honesty requires God in order to make sense, nor how one reaches that conclusion from the Bible. Honestly! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ben Witherington just posted the first post in what looks like it will be a series on his blog about Bart Ehrman\u2019s most recent book, Forged. Since I posted my own review, other bloggers who have reviewed or blogged about the book include The Clever Badger, Otagosh, John Hobbins, and Eric Reitan. 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