BART EHRMAN'S AGNOSTICISM AND THE VARIOUS CONCEPTS OF EVIL IN THE BIBLE

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss the treatment of evil and the devil in the Bible based on the works of Bart Ehrman, Elaine Pagels and Karen Armstrong. These three scholars of early Christianity show us that many of the answers that are given today already appeared in the early centuries of Christianity when the Bible was written, others are more recent developments and thus raise the question of whether beyond their Philosophical validity, they also have religious support. Thus, it is emphasized that if the problem of evil cannot be seen as definitively solved exactly in the sacred text that gives rise to it, then it is plausible that this is also not the best place to find our definitive ethical and moral principles. Argument that is actually used by the so-called “neo-atheists”.