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On pulling teeth and asking AnAtheist for some evidence
December 28th, 200902:33 PM ETIn the thread to "An Atheist Pot, a Christian Kettle, and an ironic charge of blackness" I critiqued atheist inconsistencies. Who would have thought that the thread of the discussion would provide further evidence for these ironic consistencies? In the thread I noted some of the evidence I had provided for Christian theism. "I have discussed innu... -
All I want for Christmas is … a coherent account of the incarnation
December 08th, 200901:22 PM ETThe Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. (John 1:14, The Message) At the core of Christian faith is the doctrine of the incarnation according to which God the Son, the second person of the Trinity, incarnated and became the man Jesus Christ. But what does it mean to say that God became man? Could this really be tr... -
Why does Jesus always get picked on?
November 26th, 200907:49 PM ETHow many Shakespeare scholars do you suppose believe Christopher Marlow wrote the great Bard's plays? Less than one in a hundred, I'm sure. Are Shakespeare scholars fools? That seems a little bit presumptuous I would think. Of course laypeople can always offer their own speculations on how and why they believe Christopher Marlow, or Ben Jonson... -
Does the resurrection of Jesus stand up to historical enquiry?
November 23rd, 200911:33 AM ETIn an earlier post, "Were New Testament Christians reliable witnesses, or were they ignorant fools?", I offered a critique of the facile, if common, assumption that the testimony of ancient people is excessively credulous and untrustworthy. On the contrary, we need to test the credentials of ancient witnesses no less than contemporar... -
Biblical Violence and Disingenuous Apologetics
April 29th, 200912:01 PM ETOne could make a good case that we are currently living in a golden age of Christian apologetics. The current intellectual landscape bristles with solid arguments in favor of intelligent design, cosmic fine-tuning, substance dualism, the resurrection of Jesus, and countless other topics. And the field once owned by a few luminaries like Josh McDowe...
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