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churchpundit,
Agreed. This is the type of belief that knowing whatever makes you feel good and right is equivalent with God. It tames an un-tamable God. It contains and un-containable God within man. While the human spirit is truly fantastic and approaches infinity, it must ever bow to its Creator.
Grace to you,
clayonmyeyes
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Posted 09/19/2006 11:59am
Author: clayonmyeyes
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When I started to feel called to apologetics ministry, the so-called "Christ Myth"--that Jesus was not a real, historical person--was one of the first bits of insanity that I encountered.
I searched this book out on Amazon.com Here is one of the reviews I found:
First and foremost, I find it fascinating that the book doesn't try to claim that Moses and Mohammed are anything but real, historical figures. It only tries to claim that Jesus isn't a real, historical figure. The reason for this being in the Bible itself:
[bible]1 Corinthians 15:11-17[/bible]
Put another way, if Jesus never lived and was never raised from the dead, our faith is completely worthless. Isn't that the real point of the entire body of work dedicated to "proving" Jesus didn't exist? Merely more of Satan's lies, I think.
Second, I remember watching a special on the Discovery Channel--not necessairly known for defending Christianity per se--that quoted theologians and historians as doubting that the Exodus took place when archeologists proposed because they didn't believe that monotheism as a philosophy could have existed in that time period. Though evidence of a small one-god cult could be found from the same place and time, most still did not accept that proposed date for the Exodus because they thought that monotheism was too advanced for the culture. That's important to note, and I really wish I could cite my source! 
Well, I'd want to read this book if I had time just to write a better reasoned reply to it. But in the meantime, I think that we should pray for the audience and authors of these works, that God may reveal His truth to them and that they can see the error of their ways.
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Posted 09/20/2006 01:27am
Author: venomx
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I've read some material on Gnostic Christianity. Elaine Pagels is the best authority (that I know of) among its followers (she's a professor of religion at Princeton and received her Ph.D. from Harvard). This is all stuff that has gained tremendous popularity since the Da Vinci Code book/movie. Everybody loves a juicy conspiracy. Really though none of this controversy is new and started during Christianity's infancy. While I agree with some of their ideas (as all goodness is from God); I disagree with their conclusions. It's all the same God=man stuff that the secular world embraces as it imparts no real responsibility to anyone but oneself.
When I read material like this at first my beliefs are shaken because of my intellect. Later after processing and prayer they are strengthened because of my faith. (My intellect eventually comes around to seeing things clearly as well )
The opposition against Christ began with His public ministry and climaxed with His crucifixion. It continues to this day. Judas made money at Christ's expense (understatement of the century).
Grace to you,
clayonmyeyes
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Posted 09/20/2006 06:51am
Author: clayonmyeyes
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