Preliminary Remarks and IntroductionPosted on 09/28/2010 9:37:41 PM PDT by grassboots.org
Preliminary Remarks and Introduction
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video by professed Christian-turned-Atheist Chris Redford, along with my arguments there is no evidence he ever was a Christian. After some email correspondence with Mr. Redford, he agreed to answer some questions for this site. Because of the length of his responses I have decided to give each question and answer a separate post, otherwise I give each of his answers in complete form without interruption. I will give my response only at the end of each question. I think this is the only fair way to let the man have his say.
One note of clarification. He chose to answer each question "as a Christian" and "as an Atheist". I did not ask him to answer that way. Because this is a very bizarre way to think, in my opinion, let me warn you in advance that things are not as they appear. Please be patient; I will explain what I mean after his answers.
Chris Redford:
"...I am not a Christian now. I am an atheist. So my answers as an atheist and the answers I would have given you as a Christian are very different. As such, I will answer all of your questions both as I would have as a Christian and as I would now as an atheist.
Before we could ever agree whether you were a Christian or not, we must define what a Christian is.
What is your understanding of the meaning of Christian? Chris as a Christian:
(Excerpt) Read more at caffeinatedtheology.com ...
see Romans 10:9
It is interesting that first, in the interview, Mr. Redford never mentions Christ being raised from the dead. If you read the original post, all Redford does on his video is tout his experience, not what the Scriptures teach. He considers those to be tired old doctrines, and useless.
Second, if he believes Christ was raised from the dead he could not be an atheist.
“He’s black on the wrong side!” —Frank Gorshin
Actually, to me that looks like half of a Charlie Crist.
Just for clarification, I chose the two-face picture to illustrate the absurdity of answering questions as two opposite people and expecting that they both would be credible.
Athiest really hate to admit that their belief that there is no God, etc. borders on being a religous zealot belief in and of its own right......I mean geez, do they not have to have belief and faith in that belief that there is no God, etc? Oh the irony. /s =.=
Very astute, my dear Cranked.
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