tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post7472324705769862351..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God: Debunking the Resurrection of JesusRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-42473032860914782472013-07-12T20:44:47.450-04:002013-07-12T20:44:47.450-04:00Mike Licona shares a testimony of a Yale educated ...Mike Licona shares a testimony of a Yale educated (master of Divinity) friend of his who goes and ministers to people in Afghanistan, Iran, India, the underground churches in China et cetera. On one occasion in China he was speaking to former Muslims who converted to Christianity. They asked him for some advice about a spirit that had been visiting them and harassing them. They say the spirit looks like a guy with long gray hair wearing a white robe. He often materializes out of nowhere and threatens to kill them and families. He says his friend didn't believe them at first and thought they were a little strange. But before he was supposed to speak to them, he asked to use the washroom and they told him where it was. In the hallway on the way to the washroom all of a sudden everything went dark, and out of nowhere the spirit flies up to him and grabs him by the neck and starts choking him. He told Licona that he felt the spirit was going to kill him; he felt that he was dying. But he was able to utter, "You want to kill me, but I have come now to destroy you in the name of Jesus." At that point the spirit let him go and flew away. He proceeded to go and use the washroom. Then when he returned, the people he was supposed to speak to told him, "You saw him [didn't you?]". He asked, "How did you know?" They said, "Because your face is really white with fear."<br /><br />http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=261<br /><br />DIRECT MP3 LINK HERE (at around 42 minutes into interview):<br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/download/ConversationsFromThePaleBlueDot002-MikeLicona/002-MikeLicona.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/download/ConversationsFromThePaleBlueDot002-MikeLicona/002-MikeLicona.mp3</a><br /><br />Around 10 minutes later he recounts a story of a female friend who had a paranormal experience of a friend one night and the next day she discovered she had died. In another telling of the story during a debate with Richard Carrier, Licona says that his friend hadn't thought about her friend in a long time.<br /><br />Mike Licona describes how when he was young his father (who was an ex-Mason) would often do interviews about why Masonry is incompatible with Christianity. Often when his father would do those interviews they would experience poltergeist like activity in their house. He gives various examples include an object (towel?) that twirled in the air when no human being holding it.<br /><br />At 33 minutes and 25 seconds into the mp3 audio.<br /><a href="http://www.apologetics315.com/2009/07/is-god-active-in-world-today-gary.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apologetics315.com/2009/07/is-god-active-in-world-today-gary.html</a>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-18999274690968802602013-07-10T18:10:10.639-04:002013-07-10T18:10:10.639-04:00An Open Letter to Chris Hallquist: Stop Embarrassi...An Open Letter to Chris Hallquist: Stop Embarrassing Atheists Before a Watching Christian Audience <b>by John Loftus</b> <a href="http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2013/07/an-open-letter-to-chris-hallquist-stop.html" rel="nofollow">http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2013/07/an-open-letter-to-chris-hallquist-stop.html</a>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-54281039019821521072013-07-08T19:47:57.437-04:002013-07-08T19:47:57.437-04:00But researchers like Stephen Braude don't cons...<i>But researchers like Stephen Braude don't consider Home to be a fraud. So the comparison backfires.</i><br /><br />If anyone is interested, there are interviews of <a href="http://www.closertotruth.com/participant/Stephen-Braude/15" rel="nofollow">Stephen Braude</a> and <a href="http://www.closertotruth.com/participant/Rupert-Sheldrake/91" rel="nofollow">Rupert Sheldrake</a> at the Closer to Truth website (a PBS show with Robert Lawrence Kuhn).<br /><br />There are many <a href="http://www.closertotruth.com/participants" rel="nofollow">more interviews</a> that are also interesting. Including ones of:<br /><br />Alvin Plantinga<br />J.P. Moreland<br />David Hunt<br />Richard Swinburne<br />Peter van Inwagen<br />Robin Collins<br />Thomas Flint<br />William Dembski<br />William Lane Craig<br />Oliver Crisp<br />Alister McGrath<br />Robert Saucy<br />Gregory Boyd<br />Quentin Smith<br />Leonard Susskind <br />Nick Bostrom<br /><br /><i>iii) Kathryn Kuhlman wasn't Jesus Christ. We don't expect her to be able to do what God Incarnate can do. Hallquist is comparing the incomparable. </i><br /><br />Kuhlman repeatedly said both in her books and on TV that she had never and could never heal anyone. She attributed any healings in her meetings to Jesus Christ. She also never hesitated to acknowledge that there were many who were not healed in her meetings; as well as repeatedly admitting she didn't understand the reasons why some were healed and others weren't. <br /><br /><br /><i>In chapter 6 he spends time on alleged alien abductees, to undermine eyewitness testimony. However, in my own study, there's a correlation between "alien abductions" and Old Hag syndrome. So I incline to an occultic interpretation. </i><br /><br />There are many testimonies of people who claim to have suffered from alien abductions (sometimes for many years) who also claim that they were able to stop them completely or consistently resist them by calling on and invoking the name of Jesus. If these testimonies are true, then they would also suggest that (at least some) cases of abduction are demonic. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.alienresistance.org/stop-alien-abduction/testimonies-of-freedom/" rel="nofollow">Here's a link to a website page that contains over 100 such testimonies.</a><br /><br />Here' a link to a blog on testimonies of angelic and demonic encounters.<br /><a href="http://misclane.blogspot.com/2013/04/evidence-and-testimonies-of-demonic-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://misclane.blogspot.com/2013/04/evidence-and-testimonies-of-demonic-and.html</a><br /><br />Here's a link to a blog on the worldwide phenomena of alleged visitations of Jesus and/or angels (either in dreams or while awake) among Muslim peoples. <br /><a href="Alleged%20Visions,%20Dreams%20and%20Visitations%20of%20Jesus%20to%20Muslims" rel="nofollow">Alleged Visions, Dreams and Visitations of Jesus to Muslims</a>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.com