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Bart Ehrman v. Mike Licona Debate: "Can Historians Prove the Resurrection of Jesus?"

By Anonymous at 12/01/2008

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  • Алексей Курыхалов

    Good point. I would like to add that AI has a mind (yet unconscious) without having a brain. However some apologists call AI a Cargo cult because it supposedly only imitates the human mind. Anyway,...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    My guess is that the majority of pew warmers are not seekers. They were acculturated as children -- "unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    Computers giving rise to minds just reinforces the brain = mind, or am I missing something?

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    Unpacking and finding what, exactly? A soul?

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    No tax on churches = society paying people to be stupid.

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 11 hours ago

  • Rick O'Sheikh

    I just copied the whole thing from my Disqus "profile" and pasted it. I on't know how long it might stay before it gets marked as spam again. Might not happen, of course. Edited to...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago

  • Rick O'Sheikh

    Rick O'Sheikh Ignorant Amos 8 hours ago Detected as spam LOL.. The Navajos would bust their guts laughing at that. Unless their culture has changed since the book I read was published, some...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago

  • John W. Loftus

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    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago

  • John W. Loftus

    How? When?

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago

  • John W. Loftus

    Indeed! Mic drop!

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago

  • Tom

    The brain equaling the mind is no more objectionable than the motor equaling the car's power. The point is that the mind is 100% matter and energy. Just like there is nothing...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 12 hours ago

  • Gary M

    Christianity has (alleged) eyewitness accounts of its supernatural event. Judaism cannot make that claim.

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    Rabbi David Wolpe's view on the Exodus is that it's a powerful narrative and a central part of Jewish tradition, but its historicity is not essential to its meaning. He...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago

  • Rick O'Sheikh
    Much of what you write is persuasive. What could a fundagelical reply? Let's see...

    They might repeat the words from some bumper-stickers I used to see in Texas:...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    However, it is very easy to disprove the core claim of Judaism:

    As it is with the core claim of Christianity, without needing Rabbi Singer. Which isn't the story of the...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago

  • Rick O'Sheikh

    LOL... And my previous reply was marked as spam again.

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    If Jesus is sealed up behind a large rock in a tomb, who would be able to see His resurrection?

    Jesus wasn't buried in a tomb, behind a large rock in the creeds. Show...

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 14 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    There are many ways to validate Christ's resurrection.

    Nope. There isn't. That's why most of the world thinks it's nonsense. Even some Christians think...

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 15 hours ago

  • Gary M

    You are absolutely correct. However, it is very easy to disprove the core claim of Judaism: "God spoke to several million Jews camped at the base of Mt. Horeb." Really? Do you have any credible,...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 15 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    A number of places where Jesus says He is going to die for the sins of the world and be raised again.

    Jesus doesn't say anything. Folk wrote stories about what a...

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 15 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos

    None of that addresses the assertion:-

    "There is absolutely no way that the resurrection of Jesus can be proven empirically or objectively"

    So pah!

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 16 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    Ephesians 3:19 talks of knowing the love of Christ experientially and not only knowledge without experience. And having the richest measure of the Divine Presence and becoming a body...

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 16 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    This reasoning fails from the New Testament, and from personal experience.

    You seem to have a problem with reading for comprehension.

    Christ did many signs and...

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 16 hours ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    No, my faith has come from my own personal experience with Christ and with a few other believers I have been associated with as friends and mentors.

    Personal experience...

    Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 17 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    Yep, the gospel "eyewitnesses" can't eve agree on what day Jesus died. Of course John has Jesus dying on the cross at the same time the Passover lambs are being slaughtered because...

    Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 18 hours ago

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