RE: 'The Truth' Sounds Too Familiar...
September 25, 2012 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2012 at 4:25 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(September 25, 2012 at 3:22 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: I'm not studied enough to be able to speak to all of the OP, but the concept of resurrection seems to be to be original to the Christian movement.
I wrote about it here (it's not long and the sources are at the bottom).
http://morethanmorality.blogspot.com/201...n.html?m=1
Jeff, I was once like you. I had read books by Craig, Habermas (I met him personally), Licona, Holding, and other apologists, and was convinced of the resurrection for a while because of their arguments.
Do yourself a favor and be more objective. Get out of the apologists echo chamber. Try actually reading books written by secular scholars instead of the straw men made up by the apologists.
There are many books I'd recommend but probably the best to start off with would be Richard Carrier's "Not the Impossible Faith" (you can find as an ebook fairly cheap). He's a PHD historian and spends about 600 pages explaining how Christianity could have easily arisen without a supernatural causes. His arguments also assume that Jesus existed so it doesn't rely on anything controversial.
Or start off with these free articles here (these articles are what got me off the apologist band wagon) http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/t...ction.html
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
