(November 1, 2015 at 2:03 pm)Irrational Wrote:(November 1, 2015 at 1:10 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Knows more about Biblical scholarship than Ehrman? Wow, what an amazing Christian you are, Drich!
When you have to refer to an agenda to defend against criticism, you've lost. Especially if the only people you don't think have an agenda are the ones who agree with you.
lol, Drich is in big denial. All the evidence points to the Book of Acts being written at least somewhere near the end of the first century, and experts themselves make it clear to us how this is so.
Drich on the other hand doesn't provide any evidence that it was written around the date proposed by him but just dismisses what the experts say by arguing that expertise means jack shit if it goes against his beliefs.
Until he shows up next week with some "this literalist, evangelical theologian says the Bible is exactly true as written, how can you deny it?" bullshit; then we'll be castigated for not taking the experts seriously.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
