Religion: Basics

After reading the chapters and Ehrman’s historian and believer, I can conclude that I didn’t exactly know the difference between the two and oftentimes mistakingly correlated the two together. According to the reading, historians articulated a record of past events that mattered the most to the public. Such events included world events and experiences that have been carefully examined and analyzed. Historians aren’t able to depict what happens in the supernatural realm, but instead write about the events that are taken place in the natural world. Believers, on the other hand, are moreover portrayed as the different religions they practice.

The most interesting aspect of this subject is the complex relationship between the two of these terms. In my experiences, the religion that I closely follow being Islam has its historians. They depict what happened in our world with the prophets that were here in the past generations, and me as the follower as well as a believer in this scenario. However, now learning that other religions have their historians and may or may not be the same descriptions of other religions, this goes to show that although historians may write about different religions, they all have the same function and purpose.