RE: Why are you a Theist?
April 2, 2013 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 9:36 pm by jstrodel.)
Of course you wouldn't read people that disagree with you, because you are a free thinker. That is what it means to be a free thinker, when you are a free thinker, you don't read books by people who you are pretty sure you know more than them.
CS Lewis was an apologist, not a thinker in theology, biblical studies or religious studies. CS Lewis is a good writer, but the fact that you mentioned him shows that you have no connection to the world of Greek scholarship and academic theology, whether secular or Christian.
There are thousands of scholars who are Christian that could answer every single amaturish jab against Christianity, such as those made by the guy you mentioned who doesn't even have a PhD.
Goto a seminary library and you will find there are millions and millions of books that will refute every single false idea you have linking Christianity to mystery religiouns or whatever other 200 page paperback mass market Da Vinci code fantasy the book market will bear.
It is up to you if you want to take religious scholarship seriously, there is plenty written on it to refute the kind of ignorant nonsense you see on these forums that says that Jesus is not a historical person.
CS Lewis was an apologist, not a thinker in theology, biblical studies or religious studies. CS Lewis is a good writer, but the fact that you mentioned him shows that you have no connection to the world of Greek scholarship and academic theology, whether secular or Christian.
There are thousands of scholars who are Christian that could answer every single amaturish jab against Christianity, such as those made by the guy you mentioned who doesn't even have a PhD.
Goto a seminary library and you will find there are millions and millions of books that will refute every single false idea you have linking Christianity to mystery religiouns or whatever other 200 page paperback mass market Da Vinci code fantasy the book market will bear.
It is up to you if you want to take religious scholarship seriously, there is plenty written on it to refute the kind of ignorant nonsense you see on these forums that says that Jesus is not a historical person.
