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To: P8riot

553 pages of them.

51 posted on 12/09/2008 3:09:57 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
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To: CholeraJoe

1 simple verse of refutation to 553 pages:

1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

How angry, how empty a man must poor C. Dennis McKinsey be to spend so many hours, days, weeks, months compiling a tome to discredit that which he does not believe in.

Such foolishness! Such a waste!


64 posted on 12/09/2008 3:21:39 PM PST by MarDav
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To: CholeraJoe

Oh, so I am supposed to believe some guy that measures scripture by his own finite standards. That would be like me writing a book about why I don’t like broccoli.


73 posted on 12/09/2008 3:29:19 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: CholeraJoe

McKinsey’s book is easily answerable.


113 posted on 12/09/2008 4:07:50 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: CholeraJoe
Yes, but do you have any consistencies to relate? Take them out of McKinsey's book if you want.

BTW, it took me all of five seconds to find a review pointing out not only McKinsey's lack of effectiveness, but an example of a particularly ludicrous "error" he brings up. Emphasis mine:

This book was not worth the price for several reasons. For one, it is not nearly in-depth as it should be. McKinsey brings up a vast selection of errors but rarely addresses appologetic responses... and if he does, he does not address appologetic rebuttals to his response. Many of the things he brings up as points have reasons behind them that appear to be equally as valid as some of his reasons against them (metaphors, cultural explainations, etc).

Furthmore, he appears to be reaching on many of his points. As one example, McKinsey makes the claim that the Bible cannot be true because one parable refers the mustard seed the smallest seed when it is, in fact, not. This seems just silly as the reference appears to be more of a litary hyperbole than a statement on botany. There are other examples similar to this one throughout the book.

Review here.

I've been a Christian long enough to know that most such "errors and inconsistencies" are of similar solidity, and even the good ones usually have more to do with Hebrew and Greek translation than anything else.

176 posted on 12/09/2008 5:30:36 PM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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