(July 1, 2012 at 7:11 am)jackman Wrote: yeah, i already did that (with apologists). doesn't always mesh with what i hear here tho. so i wonder what i'm missing.
I suspect that is because the idiot jesus freaks who show up here are not very good at it, either.
If you want to see a real apologist in action you need to read something like Justin Martyr's First Apology where you hear such gems as:
Quote:And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter.
or,
Quote:And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus. And in that we say that He made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by AEsculapius.
(Justin lived at a time (c 160 AD) when his fellow xtians would not burn his ass at the stake for comparing ole jesus to Roman gods!)
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/te...ology.html
