Debate with Jerry McDonald: Round Two
Round two is now complete. Jerry’s second affirmative and my second rebuttal have been posted, and both statements are divided into two parts (because of their length). I'm curious to know what people think.
Labels: Jerry McDonald, Resurrection debate
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 · 15 minutes ago
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 · 20 minutes ago
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 · 1 hour ago
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 · 1 hour ago
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! · 2 hours ago
And didn't the women know about the Lazarus yarn? Four days dead and a stink, was not an issue for the risen after Jesus pitched up on the scene. Unless we presume Lazarus was wandering about...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
According to Mark 15:43, Joseph was a voting member of the Sanhedrin. Would he have missed Passover?
But in gJohn, there is that work around. In the Gospel of John, Jesus...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
The earliest Christians were all Jews, when Christianity was just a tiny cult. But they could not persuade many of their fellow Jews to misinterpret the Hebrew Bible. Then the renegade...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Have you guys heard of Rabbi Tovia Singer?
Yes. As an "enemy of my enemy, is my friend" kinda guy, he hits the mark when ridiculing Christer nonsense. But when it...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Especially back in the day when they had valves.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Yelling at the television is another stupid people behavior. Which even smart people do whenever Trump comes on.
This article dropped into my inbox a couple of months ago:-...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
This one never fails to get a laugh...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
For less than the price of a cup of coffee, on Kindle...a steal.
Defo worth £2.42 of anyone's money. Even if just as another source to cite.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Of course, there is a difference between doing that, because it was known to work sometimes, versus kicking something out of anger.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Science, for example, keeps inconveniently discovering that some things that ordinary people have enjoyed for a long time (booze, cigs, sugary foods, automobiles, air travel, guns,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
"Seems to me that Distinguished Professor Doctor Researcher Habermas has a problem with early Christians, not modern skeptics." I don't believe that is true. I would submit that what...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 7 hours ago
There are many ways to validate Christ's resurrection. One is that there was a marked changed in the courage and demeanor of the disciples who then became Apostles. The creeds about Christ as...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 7 hours ago
A number of places where Jesus says He is going to die for the sins of the world and be raised again. Matthew 17:22-23 ESV As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 7 hours ago
"There is absolutely no way that the resurrection of Jesus can be proven empirically or objectivey" If I become filled with the Holy Spirit so that I am experiencing the richest measure...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 8 hours ago
I used to slam the side of the TV when it wasn't working. Then it would work again.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 8 hours ago
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 wholly filled...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 8 hours ago
" The fact that it is faith based and not evidentiary is the reason that apologists have to come up with other means of "defending" their beliefs such as philosophical arguments...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 8 hours ago
"It looks like a gigantic effort to simply overwhelm and bury the reader with material, and then Christians can tell themselves that a serious intellectual who is way smarter than them has...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 9 hours ago
When someone becomes curious enough and willing to confront ONE question like the above with the sincere desire to understand the answer and its implications, they have already become the kind of...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 9 hours ago
It's like the computer: hardware (brain) and software (mind). I know it's simplistic, but I'm a simple man.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 10 hours ago