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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Back To Part 1
Part two – On the nature of YHVH as portrayed in the Bible
What can be greater blasphemy, than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty - The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Part one - Satan, Hell, Original sin and other niceties
"I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of a kind that we experience in ourselves." – Albert Einstein
"The Hell Law states that hell is reserved exclusively for
those that believe in it. ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The Problem of the Roman Catholics
If there is a word that today’s Evangelical Christians hate to be associated with, it is the word “Catholic”.
Yet the authenticity of today’s various forms of western Christianity are forever entwined with the Roman Catholic Church that selected, edited and interpreted our Bible.
The Christianity we ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The historical evidence - The census and the slaughter of the innocents
Three problems of the historical variety are presented to Dr John McRay, the first of which is Luke’s census. Luke portrays a Roman census where all Israelites had to attempt to remember which tribe they were a part of ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The problem of the Genealogies
And not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by faith."1 Timothy 1:4 (NRS)
Strobel’s treatment of “apparent” contradictions is ridiculously miserly. He serves two lazy forehand volleys to Blomberg only to have them smashed ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
The subject of Jesus’ divinity is a sensitive one for believing Christians, but nonetheless incredibly important and deserving of a more complete treatment then can be provided here.
Nonetheless Blomberg’s own attempt to find a Jesus like John’s in the synoptics is so absurd, so lacking in scholarly integrity that ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Which of these Gospels are doing their own thing?
In Lee Strobel’s interview with Dr Metzger, the issue of The Gospel of Thomas is raised. It receives a second dose of poo-pooing from Dr Gregory Boyd later on. Christian scholars fall all over themselves to cast stones at Thomas, and for ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Dating the Gospels
If we were to believe the evidence concerning the authorship of the Gospels is late and scarce, the apologetic method of dating the Gospels is even more suspect then the testimony of Papias - a believer in the somewhat lesser known (but no less amazing) miracle concerning Judas ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Now Later on in The case for Christ when the apologists are presented with conflicting Gospel accounts, they will argue that independent oral tradition can only match by a percentage of “10 – 40%”. Allow me to illustrate one of many examples that could be provided to show that when ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
Chapter 1 – Eyewitness evidence
Let’s begin with a statement provided by the first apologist Craig Blomberg
“Strictly speaking the Gospels are anonymous”
The fact that the Gospels are anonymous is not only true “strictly speaking” but in any sense of speaking and in any examination of their authorship.
Matthew never claims to ...
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