Posted on 04/24/2006 1:25:05 PM PDT by NYer
More MSM whining "We're talking about Christianity, why aren't you Christians watching us?"
Sooo, she admits that anti-Semitism is a bad thing. Alright, so far so good. You'd assume that the next step is denouncing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right? Wrong. Christians are the enemy of Jews! Muslims are peaceful and would never seek to wipe Israel off the map. Nor do they wish to convert or kill every Jew on the face of the planet.
I have listened to Ehrman he is a Christianity debunker.
This furor is about nada, zilch. This book of Judas has been known for centuries. For those interested here's a link to Early Christian Writings, some of value,some not.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
Ad hominem arguments are fellatious. To argue with their output, one needs to pick apart their logic, lingustics and textology, not their biographies. What was the name of that islamic professor whose best argument was "you are a heretic"?
I doubt you are going to find many "pro-canonical" Biblical scholars who are going to be interested in participating with a TV special that hypes a work that contradicts the traditional Bible.
Hey, hey, hey.... my favorite guy in the NT (next to Jesus) is finally getting a fair shake! Quit nit-picking!
Ill need to do Penance for it, but I sat down to watch it the other night. I shut it off halfway through. Not because I questioned the science, but because of the arrogance of the Coptic Scholars. I was really struck by their attitudes..
There's no way to know
if the version getting press
is real or contrived.
So many 'experts'
involved with the project have
such passionate views
against the 'classic'
Christian view of Jesus Christ,
any document
they give support to
should be called questionable.
They may overlook
blatant forgeries,
or their 'zeal' might persuade them
to forge things themselves,
using their knowledge
to create very good fakes.
(And this attention
to the strong bias
among so-called experts might
call into question
other high profile
revisionist Christian finds . . .
Should we really trust
all the 'Dead Sea' scrolls?
Even today the story
of their 'discovery'
is just that, story.
Two generations ago,
we hadn't wised up . . .)
You might want to reconsider the spelling of that...
Precisely.
"The Davinci Code" and "The Gospel of Judas" are mainstream attempts to undermine the importance of the Gospel. They target Jesus Christ's divinity by insisting that He was just a regular man. A regular man who married a woman and also knowingly asked people to sin.
By defiling Christ's wonderful message (and subsequently deceiving mankind), they serve the interests of Satan.
Ignore these dishonest films, and keep your faith strong in the Lord. There is no other path to grace, peace and truth without belief in the Gospel.
No, Judas does not count as a Gospel!!!
I'm not sure what, if anything, ad hominem argument has to do with oral sodomy.
To argue with their output, one needs to pick apart their logic, lingustics and textology, not their biographies.
I'm not sure what "textology" is, either.
The author of the article is not mentioning their biases in order to refute their arguments - he is mentioning their biases to demonstrate that the media is obssessively one-sided in their coverage.
His point is that we have seven so-called experts who all take a view antithetical to that of orthodox Christianity while not one scholar is there to take the other side of the argument.
What was the name of that islamic professor whose best argument was "you are a heretic"?
You realize, of course, that this itself is a form of the ad hominem argument?
This wouldnt be the first time NG put their agenda ahead of accuracy.
You would be able to find plenty.
The reason why they were not included was that they are not invited - because any Christian scholar would be able to blow holes in these heterodox arguments wide enough to drive a Mack truck through.
I'm not a scholar, although I have a far superior theological background to Pagels' and also am more knowledgeable about the source languages than she is. I would have loved to have been able to get a few zingers in, and I doubt that I am alone.
They couldn't wait to bring this and the Mary Magdelene was Jesus' wife and they had children stuff out at Eastertime. Big slap in the face. It's all about destroying Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church/religion. Secular humanism triumphant. PC multiculturalism/moral relativism, communism the list is endless and disgusting.
Like what?... I have been a Catholic Christian all my life and I don't recall anyone who is devout in their faith say anything that disparages the Jewish people.
But I guess Amy can call Christians anything she'd like. Sounds like a double standard to me.
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