Pretty good apologetics...from an unlikely source!
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A good video response to scriptural critics:
Pretty good apologetics...from an unlikely source!
The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
Bart Ehrman | ||||
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Posted by panta dokimazete at 3:12 AM
While many in the church today, who having bitten off the principles of the world rather than swallowing the word of God, fail to recognize it, the truth remains that CHRISTIAN SKEPTICISM is not only our great heritage and long standing tradition, but also our Christian calling! (Swordbearer: Christian Skepticism – Our Great Heritage and Calling; July 07)
The key is how the different schools of thought withstand internal critique. Naturalism struggles with internal critique, because it is inductive by nature. Any of its conclusions can be viewed with skepticism, because we can never examine all the evidence in all relationships in all senses. It further refuses to admit to its own metaphysical components. For example, how can the naturalist prove the laws of logic by use of the scientific method, without being viciously circular? It is a metaphysical assumption held to by a groundless faith. (Puritan Lad: Team CS and the clash of the worldviews!; July 07)
If you say that God is “unnecessary in everything we know about”, how do you know that? Do you know “everything we know about”? Who are “we”? How did you come to know the meaning of the word “be”? You said that you don’t know where the universe comes from. How does that remove the necessity for God? At the very least, it is equally an explanation as any other if you don’t know. So then God is not removed from everything we know about, since the universe had to come into existence in order to exist. (Puritan Lad: Team CS and the clash of the worldviews!; July 07)
You mean to say that you actually have evidence that the universe wasn’t created? That would be monumental. Can you point us to this evidence? (Puritan Lad: Team CS and the clash of the worldviews!; July 07)
5 comments:
WOW, Colbert handled him better than the globetrotters handle a basketball!
I bet Colbert would like to become a CS team member! Either way, we need to present him an honorary CS team member certificate!
I saw some more good apologetics from an unlikely source this weekend from Kathy Ireland who was speaking against abortion on the Huckabee show.
While I am do not watch Colbert, judging by the audience reaction and the comic attitude of Colbert during this interview, I believe he was mocking Christainity through playing the part of a devils advocate. It did not appear to be a sincere objection to the point of view his guest. He is after all on a very leftist secular network..........
I don't deny that, but the arguments were pretty good...
The question that comes up with me is why someone like Ehrman, who is at least pretending to be a serious scholar, would go on a show like this? He must know that it's a no-win proposition for him.
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