[AnAmericanMother]

OK, this statement sounded like complete B.S.:

In most any university library you will find many more books on Plato than you will on Jesus.

So I checked the Emory University (my graduate school) main library, NOT the theological school library.

Results:

"Plato" - 2,165 books.
"Jesus" - 21,003 books.

Just in case it was a fluke, I also checked Harvard University's main catalog.

Results:

"Plato" - 8,449
"Jesus" - 53,239

Yale University:

"Plato" - 1,497
"Jesus" - 2,802

But apparently they're a bunch of heathens up at Princeton, my undergraduate alma mater:

"Plato" - 1308
"Jesus" - 845

I suspect, however, from those extremely low numbers - given the size of Firestone Library - that the electronic system does not include less recent books filed under the old (and unique) Princeton catalog system.

It's always a good idea to check these off the cuff remarks before you commit them to paper (or electrons).

[pallis]

That was some fast research. My compliments!

[Ken4TA]

OK, this statement sounded like complete B.S.:
"In most any university library you will find many more books on Plato than you will on Jesus."

Sorry, I didn't check out what Curtis said about that particlar statement - it may have been true about the libraries he accessed, who knows? He may also have had referance to the theological theories on the topic he mentioned - in that case I think he might be right, again, who knows? Regardless of that statement he made, Plato's theory has gained a major foothold in most of Christendom, but more and more people are beginning to question it because of their studies on the topic. We'll see if it has any effect on the masses over the next decade or so :-)

Anyway, the topic is how I also came to realize with a lot of study - almost 40 years of it.

[Doulos1]

Please don't miss the point of the teaching over someones use of "in most any university library". Are you using three samples to try to disprove his statement? Try three hundred or even three thousand and you might have a point. Gee, the point being is that the man is trying to show people that the things we learn and take for granted aren't necessarily true especially when it come to the truth of God's Word. How is this relevant? When you die, you're grave yard dead. Not hovering around on some cloud some where in some protoplasmic form. Every person who has ever died is dead, except one, Jesus Christ. That is why he is called the firstfruits of them that sleep, (l Cor 15:20) KJV). Immortality is something the believers will be given at the rapture not when we pass the birth canal!