Is Bart D. Ehrman divinely inspired?

Why don't Christians believe that the renowned NT scholar Bart D. Ehrman is divinely inspired?

@fmf said
Why don't Christians believe that the renowned NT scholar Bart D. Ehrman is divinely inspired?

I’d never heard of him; probably most Christians haven’t. However having had a quick read up on him I’d say that Biblical literalists such as KellyJay, Josephw and millions of others would argue that as he has written 30 odd books examining and questioning the authenticity of the renowned collection of ancient texts called “The Holy Bible” … that he is inspired by Satan.

The root of the problem imo is that Christians are indoctrinated to believe that the Bible is the complete, exclusive and inerrant word of God to man. And yet there is no actual evidence of this, even in the Bible itself; other than the conflation of “the word of God” and “in the beginning was the word”.

Of course occasionally some Christians do drop their guard and admit the bible is not the complete, exclusive and inerrant word of God, as kellyJay does here in this link to an RHP forum discussion on the topic

https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/spirituality/attributes-of-god.195809/page-10#post_4617123

@fmf said
Why don't Christians believe that the renowned NT scholar Bart D. Ehrman is divinely inspired?

I don't know the man, only took a cursory look at one video, but I think "divinely inspired", in this day and age, is a useless term, and the odds are, and I do not believe I'm going too far out on a limb here when I say, that he is not.

A greater question is why are you taking up the idea that he is?

@divegeester said
I’d never heard of him; probably most Christians haven’t. However having had a quick read up on him I’d say that Biblical literalists such as KellyJay, Josephw and millions of others would argue that as he has written 30 odd books examining and questioning the authenticity of the renowned collection of ancient texts called “The Holy Bible” … that he is inspired by Satan. ...[text shortened]... opic

https://www.redhotpawn.com/forum/spirituality/attributes-of-god.195809/page-10#post_4617123

I believe they call this "damning with faint praise".

@suzianne said
A greater question is why are you taking up the idea that he is?

If Ehrman has made it possible for people to get closer to knowing the truth about the provenance, textual integrity, and internal logic of the New Testament, doesn't that mean his work ~ according to those who believe that the scriptures and their subsequent translations are divinely inspired ~ is part of the process?

@suzianne said
I believe they call this "damning with faint praise".

“They”?