Wednesday, October 28, 2009
An Interview With Gary Habermas
I just listened to a July 12, 2008 interview with Gary Habermas. He discusses Antony Flew's conversion from atheism to deism and addresses charges that Flew is senile, is just believing whatever the people around him tell him to believe, etc. (For those who don't know, Habermas is a friend of Flew and has been in frequent contact with him for years.) He also mentions that he's gotten an offer from a publisher to write a three-volume series on the resurrection. They would allow him up to eight hundred pages for each volume, based on the estimate he gave them as to how much material he has. I don't know whether he's decided to accept the offer since that interview, but if it's accepted, that could result in a series of books covering more than two thousand pages.
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2000 pages on the Resurrection by Gary Habermas...that's too good to be true.
ReplyDelete2000 pages about something that never happened...it's too dumb to be true.
ReplyDeleteWhat's dumb are one-liners bereft of reason.
ReplyDeleteFor what reason should any sane person believe that Jesus Christ even existed? Give me a good reason not the lies I've heard all my life.
ReplyDeleteFirst Boris posts a one-line vague assertion devoid of supporting argumentation, as Steve noted. Then, after being criticized for that behavior, he doesn't defend his initial post, but instead tries to shift the discussion to whether Jesus existed. Since nearly all scholars accept Jesus' existence and some have written in depth about why they do so, and since we've addressed this subject in depth in previous threads, Boris should explain why he disagrees with modern scholarship and why he disagrees with our arguments in particular. It's not our responsibility to reinvent the wheel, especially considering how unreasonable and evasive Boris has shown himself to be so far. Why should we make the effort to argue for Jesus' existence again, only to have Boris respond by ignoring that argumentation and trying to shift the discussion to the doctrine of Hell or the Salem witch trials?
ReplyDeleteIs that the red-eyed Boris of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame?
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