tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post116467812168168561..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Promise & fulfillmentRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1165254264486329842006-12-04T12:44:00.000-05:002006-12-04T12:44:00.000-05:00Hi,Love the blog. I'm a musician and I'd be honore...Hi,<BR/>Love the blog. <BR/>I'm a musician and I'd be honored if you'd check out my music. All my music is free on my site, and I just wanted to share it with you. <BR/><BR/>I don't want to be an annoyance, so if this message bothers you please delete it and accept my humble apology. <BR/>___________________________<BR/>www.SeanDietrich.com<BR/>"All my music is free."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-1164723861749165032006-11-28T09:24:00.000-05:002006-11-28T09:24:00.000-05:00The "argument from failed end-times predictions" c...The "argument from failed end-times predictions" cannot work because of a kind of anthropic principle. What exapologist appears to do is to make Jesus' prophecies into an "experiment", the outcome of which allows us to decide whether he was right or not.<BR/><BR/>But if Christ really meant to say that the physical world would end within one generation, one outcome of the "experiment" could never occur: if the world had ended, then we wouldn't have been here to notice it. In other words, if we at this time in history decide to test Jesus' eschatological predictions <I>assuming they were about the end of the physical world</I>, then we know the outcome in advance.<BR/><BR/>If, on the other hand, we want to say something more substantial, we will have to contrast <I>actual</I> Christian views of Jesus, which <I>are</I> consistent with history as we know it, with naturalistic views. For example, exapologist thinks the resurrection of Jesus is improbable because God would not resurrect a false prophet. But if we conclude from the historical evidence that Jesus probably <I>was</I> resurrected, then the possibility that our view of him as a false profet was in fact <I>wrong</I> must be considered.<BR/><BR/>To put it differently again, the slogan "Jesus predicted the end of the world, but what came was the church" begs the question (that Jesus was a failed prophet) by supposing that Jesus <I>couldn't</I> have been speaking about anything else than the end of the world. For those of us who are not experts on first-century Jewish beliefs and apocalyptic language, it will not do to simply dismiss Wright's interpretation, to name an example, as simply an "apologetic dodge" that evades the "plain meaning" of the New Testament.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com