Our problem with his books is that we are convinced Ehrman’s arguments are not the best ones, and he’s done little to acknowledge scholarly alternatives to his positions. Ehrman has a clever way of dismissing those in the academy whose research has led them to trust in the Bible. On the one hand Ehrman says that logic and evidence are what counts; let the best arguments win. But then he also suggests (sometimes explicitly, sometimes implicitly) that everyone who disagrees with him is biased and that