This post relates to an earlier one on Keller here. The crucifixion counterproductive? Why would the leaders of the early Christian movement have made up the story of the crucifixion if it didn’t happen? Any listener of the gospel in either Greek or Jewish culture would have automatically suspected that anyone who had been crucified … Continue reading “Timothy Keller, ‘Reason for God’ — “The content is far too counterproductive for the gospels to be legends.””
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A colleague and friend, concerned over my being an atheist, invited me to read Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God so I started to do so. I had not known who Timothy Keller was so I googled and found this wikipedia entry re this particular book: Keller’s book The Reason for God: Belief in an … Continue reading “Timothy Keller’s “The Reason for God” — does it get any “better”?”
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This post relates to an earlier one on Keller here. There is plenty wrong with human nature but there is also plenty of good. I have been lucky enough to have travelled a little bit to places where different religions are practiced and where the majority of people appear to profess no religion, and one … Continue reading “Why oppose godless (human) morality?”
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This post relates to an earlier one on Keller here. Timothy Keller in The Reason for God makes an astonishing claim meant to reinforce the argument that the gospels could not possibly be fictional: The literary form of the gospels is too detailed to be legend. Modern fiction . . . contains details and dialogue … Continue reading “Timothy Keller: “The literary form of the gospels is too detailed to be legend.””
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Sometimes good advice comes from the least expected places. Who would ever have thought Christian apologists dedicated to . . . Christian apologetics . . . would espouse six rules for a fair, reasonable and honest exchange of ideas. There is a catch, however. The rules appear to be confined exclusively to exchanges among those … Continue reading “Gospel Truth (no joke)”
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Kevin Brown of the Diglotting blog posts about some very interesting books. One of these is Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God which, being available on Kindle, meant I splurged on the spot and now have it waiting impatiently on my desktop to be read. But investigating this book led me … Continue reading “A Scholarly Biblioblog Doing it Right: Diglotting”
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Notice some comments from way back that included urls did not get through — am belatedly correcting that now. Have finished writing re Timothy Keller’s The Reason for God. He relies heavily on Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, and I have already addressed that in more than enough detail. He also draws on N.T. … Continue reading “posts and comments”
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If you see anything on my blog that appears to be in breach of copyright let me know {neilgodfrey1[AT]gmail.com} and I will take immediate appropriate action. Vridar by Neil Godfrey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at vridar.org. Permissions beyond the scope of this … Continue reading “Permissions: mine and yours“
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