tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post5647509894753447442..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: How Significant Is It When Modern Scholars Affirm The Historicity Of A Biblical Account?Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-15265780180836227352010-08-28T08:08:05.443-04:002010-08-28T08:08:05.443-04:00walker_family_123,
Reread what was said above. Yo...walker_family_123,<br /><br />Reread what was said above. You're ignoring and contradicting what's already been documented.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-54108126986841440682009-06-10T18:12:37.121-04:002009-06-10T18:12:37.121-04:00Jason, I'll try to clarify what the critics ar...Jason, I'll try to clarify what the critics are saying.<br /><br />If you look in Habermas’ study, the people he lists as ‘moderate conservative’ (the majority) include Richard Swinburne and NT Wright. Hardly what one would call agnostics. I think the point is just that most NT scholars happen to be believing Christians, however one slices it.<br /><br />The criticism is not that Craig is citing inaccurate data per se, simply that it’s misleading because most people in the field he’s quoting happen to be of the same religion as him.RobWalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107066761869812733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-74219952087397221382009-06-10T18:03:48.502-04:002009-06-10T18:03:48.502-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.RobWalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03107066761869812733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-89086467116931392152009-04-03T19:37:00.000-04:002009-04-03T19:37:00.000-04:00testing123,Reread what I wrote above. You're misre...testing123,<BR/><BR/>Reread what I wrote above. You're misrepresenting the data.Jason Engwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17031011335190895123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-14640034157882199092009-03-31T12:20:00.000-04:002009-03-31T12:20:00.000-04:00This dialogue seems a bit irrelevant for athiests ...This dialogue seems a bit irrelevant for athiests to attack us, but also these stats don’t really help us, either. Craig & Habermas often cite the 75% of New Testament scholars who support the ‘4 points,’ but in Habermas’ summary online, he points out that 75% of the scholars in the work happen to be conservative Christians.<BR/><BR/>Does that not make the findings somewhat of a ‘So What?’ In other words, Habermas has demonstrated that conservative Christians believe that the NT is accurate. Isn’t that to be expected? Just as a poll could show that most Quranic scholars believe the Quran to be accurate. I’d be interested to know what our non-Christian friends in the scholarly world think.<BR/><BR/>If 75% of scholars agree on these 4 points, and 75% of the scholars reviewed are conservative Christians, no matter how one slices it, once one removes those of us who are already believers, the numbers drop a lot.<BR/><BR/>I’m just saying that, although I think the atheists misunderstand the numbers, the stats don’t help us as they only serve to demonstrate that most NT scholars happen to be conservative Christians.<BR/><BR/>Thxtesting123https://www.blogger.com/profile/15919641253186828071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-42610089622546158782009-03-04T05:47:00.000-05:002009-03-04T05:47:00.000-05:00So, all those biblical scholars WLC debates on the...So, all those biblical scholars WLC debates on the resurrection wo accept the empty tomb and everything else are christians themselves?<BR/><BR/>CONSPIRACY!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-61408714421806564492009-03-03T11:00:00.000-05:002009-03-03T11:00:00.000-05:00Or to think that men like Habermas and Craig "thin...Or to think that men like Habermas and Craig "think the majority of scholars agree with themselves" because "the only scholars they know are the ones they hang out with in their christian circles"?<BR/><BR/>Statements like this show the patent dishonesty or plain stupidity of the commenters. Have any of them actually compared conservative commentaries to liberal commentaries. If they had, they would know that conservatives regularly interact with liberals. It's the liberals, not the conservatives, who don't interact with the opposing side. Rather, like those who make comments like this, they dismiss the other side and go about their merry way.GeneMBridgeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10504383610477532374noreply@blogger.com