Dear, Bart Ehrman

Dear,
Mr. Ehrman

One of the first things I learned, after my conversion back to Christianity, was that eli eli lama sabachthani was a Rabbinical teaching method, where the first line of a Psalm was quoted, and meant to be interpreted. The psalm being quoted is Psalm 22. 

As for the inconsistencies in the Gospel---especially the point where Jesus talks---there's an Old Testament verse "He was silent as a lamb before His shearers," The prophecy being fulfilled by Christ. The fact that Christ did speak, and fulfilled the prophecy is comforting to me. Meaning, a prophecy can be fulfilled as it figurally transpired.

With that, I'm not going to reveal all the secrets of the universe to you. You'd likely not believe them. But your sermon on the inconsistencies of the Gospel just reaffirms the comforts of Christ's teachings, and dissuades me from having legalistic beliefs. Which, I'm happy about that because a prophecy gets fulfilled through a type, and not through literality. There's also a verse in John where Christ responds to Caesar. But, Christ was still "Silent" before His Shearers. And Christ was sinless, and a perfect fulfillment of Prophecy, sufficient as a Lamb.

And, the prophecy being fulfilled through Christ was in Psalm 22. It's literally one of the first things I was taught as a Christian. And frankly, the thing that converted me to Christianity, was the apparent meaninglessness of life without God's existence. And the moral vacuum that was apparent didn't exist. I can clearly see morals are inherent. And Christ taught perfect morals, which already agreed with what I observed about morality.