tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post286740407990401550..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: The Deadliest Attack on HappinessDr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-76676474796616201932014-09-04T12:19:22.553-04:002014-09-04T12:19:22.553-04:00I am amused to read stuff like this from Wikipedia...I am amused to read stuff like this from Wikipedia (under their "Jesus" entry): "Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically". In other words, if we worry about what "authorities" are saying, the ones who say Jesus DIDN'T exist are currently out of vogue.<br /><br />Which means, to other historians, the ones like your HuffPo guy presently have a similar level of credibility to that which climate change deniers currently enjoy with "the scientific consensus".<br /><br />I'm not worried about the changing tides of educated opinion in the slightest, but my point is you can find someone to reinforce whatever worldview you want to take.<br /><br />But I find the written word of God is in a different class altogether from that of educated opinion, pro or con.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346761712248157930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-87167664883967757722014-09-04T12:03:09.361-04:002014-09-04T12:03:09.361-04:00Well, here is what can happen if you get sloppy (a...Well, here is what can happen if you get sloppy (as I will occasionally :-).<br /><br />My latest correspondence with my trusted sources went like this.<br /><br />Hi dad, <br />Regarding the link you sent with the NPR interview of the author and well-know Jesus scholar who wrote the book "did Jesus exist"... Did you even listen to the interview? He's a former Christian now self admitted agnostic who admits Jesus existed (but in not so many words) he says he was basically just a nice guy with moral teachings that are good to live by. Interesting. I was taught in college that this is the same perception that the Jews hold of Jesus as well.<br /><br />My reply:<br /><br />You are right, I just read the text. But in my mind even that is OK, Jesus existed, you should live by his moral teaching, case made. The rest is up to you, and the world would be a better place if everybody did that..<br /><br />Qmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-75547553868473002032014-09-04T01:40:50.444-04:002014-09-04T01:40:50.444-04:00Nice pair of articles, Q. There are lots of these ...Nice pair of articles, Q. There are lots of these on both sides. To accept any of them as the definitive answer is an exercise in faith. You trust HuffPo, or you trust your historian. Either or both could be wrong, but either way, they're still men at very best.<br /><br />Or, alternatively, you trust the Bible's statements about itself. Perhaps that is harder when you're fifteen or twenty; I can't remember, to be honest. I do know that living another 30 years, you see the journalists, the scientists, the historians and the experts disproved, proven to be frauds, incompetents or conjecturing on the basis of incomplete evidence over and over again. Their stories shifts like a mirage.<br /><br />But my Bible still says the same thing it always said. And my questions about details like the ones in the HuffPo article fall into the category IC describes in his 'Big Questions' post. Add to that my personal experience with the Lord, hearing his voice in his word, speaking to him daily, watching him move the pieces around in my life ...<br /><br />At a certain point it is no longer playing the odds. It's certainty. But you can't explain that to the Huffington Post, can you.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346761712248157930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-81076112707663605782014-09-04T00:37:31.210-04:002014-09-04T00:37:31.210-04:00Here is an example of such an attack made in the H...Here is an example of such an attack made in the Huffington Post. This is a link sent to me by someone who thought it would be of interest to me because I am blogging here (I generally don't read the Huffington Post). It is a very typical opinion piece that there is no historical basis for the historical Christ and that he is just one more mythological figure.<br /><br />What else do you expect from the Huffington Post, the bastion of the atheist left. It’s unfortunate that my country (USA), and probably the world, is trending in that direction, especially our current president. These types of people, have made this erroneous argument for the longest time.<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-sosa/jesus-is-just-a-myth-tell_b_5749472.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592#<br /><br />The next link, below, that I dug up, is about a book written by a historian, instead of by a journalist, that contravenes the journalistic argument in the above link.<br /><br />http://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149462376/did-jesus-exist-a-historian-makes-his-case<br /><br />This is what one has to contend with. We all have to place our bets with the highest probability (like we have to do with any bit of direct or transmitted knowledge), and the historian here wins out.Qmannoreply@blogger.com