Comments on: A Plea for Answers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 04:02:00 +0000

If you haven't read Tyler's academic refutations of Dan Brown's claims in The Da Vinci Code, they are excellent. He added to them today. For you apologists looking for seminary quality answers to Brown's theology, Tyler's responses could be a very helpful resource.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:27:00 +0000

Heh, heh. Excellent point.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:13:00 +0000

Switch all the propositions to negatives and the conclusions to “therefore, God doesn't exist” and you have the same lame arguments atheists use against Christians.
For example,
Moral Argument (I)
(1) Person X, a well-known Christian, was morally inferior to the rest of us.
(2) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
Moral Argument (II)
(1) In my younger days I was a Bible reading, Gospel singing, preacher loving, church attending holy roller.
(2) That all changed once I became an atheist.
(3) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
ARGUMENT FROM INTELLIGENCE
(1) Look, there's really no point in me trying to explain the whole thing to you stupid Christians — it's too complicated for you to understand. God doesn't exists whether you like it or not.
(2) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
ARGUMENT FROM NUMBERS
(1) Millions and millions of people don't believe in God.
(2) They can't all be wrong, can they?
(3) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
ARGUMENT FROM INTERNET AUTHORITY
(1) There is a website that successfully argues against the existence of God.
(2) Here is the URL.
(3) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
And one more
ARGUMENT FROM INTIMIDATION
(1) See this bonfire? (or AK-47 if you are in Cambodia)
(2) Therefore, God doesn't exist.
I don't think them atheists is as smart as they think they are.
Fred
Hip and Thigh

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:21:00 +0000

Revevangelist, thanks for your suggestion, and thanks for reading. I'll blog on the general question of whether or not Jesus existed in the coming week. I haven't seen the movie yet (I'll hopefully see it in a couple weeks), so I can't respond to the specifics right now. In the meantime, I can't recommend more highly the book The Historical Jesus by Gary Habermas. (Make sure it's the one by Habermas.) This book uses only commonly accepted historical facts to make the case for Jesus' existence--his life, death, and resurrection. As for The Da Vinci Code, I haven't yet read that, but Tyler wrote a great response to it here, and you can take a look at these articles for more information on that.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:05:00 +0000

Chad, what a great idea! I'll check it out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:41:00 +0000

Face, I like your post but you don't give any answers to the movie. Could you please do so. We all like to be better equipped to answer these kind of movies or books. I would also ask that you give us an answer to the book, the da vinci code. Thanks for all you do.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:02:00 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree. The other component, though, is actually getting outside of the comfort zone of the Christian blogosphere and conversing with some non-believers. FYI - On Monday, I'll be doing a "blog swap" with a prominent atheist blogger. He'll contribute an essay to be posted on my (Christian) group blog and I'll be sending him one to put up on his site. I really think we need to do be doing this sort of thing.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:01:00 +0000

I just saw a post Dan Kimball wrote yesterday that has similar conclusions. Take a look at it here.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:53:00 +0000

Thanks, Bill!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:43:00 +0000

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