How Jesus Became God

"Religious faith and historical knowledge are two different ways of 'knowing.' When I was at Moody Bible Institute, we affirmed wholeheartedly the words of Handel's Messiah (taken from the book of Job in the Hebrew Bible): 'I know that my Redeemer liveth.' But we 'knew' this not because of historical investigation, but because of our faith. Whether Jesus is still alive today, because of his resurrection, or indeed whether any such great miracles have happended in the past, cannot be 'known' by means of historical study, but only on the basis of faith. This is not because historians are required to adopt 'unbelieving presuppositions' or 'secular assumptions hostile to religion.' It is purely the result of the nature of historical inquiry itself -- whether undertaken by believers or unbelievers."
(Bart D. Ehrman, How Jesus Became God, 2014: 132)

오랜 고민의 흔적이 엿보인다. 날카로운 칼로 솜씨 좋게 회를 뜨는 요리사의 그것과 감히 비교해본다.