Interview with Atheist Chris Redford, Part Two.

www.caffeinatedtheology.com ^ | 10/17/10 | David Shedlock

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For those of you who have not been following the dialogue Chris Redford and I have been having, this is the 2nd part of a series of answers Chris, an atheist, gave to questions about his beliefs. He chose to answer as he would have answered when he was a youth attending an Assembly of God church and as an atheist.

The difficulty with this Sisyphean approach is the assumption that he can answer and "defend" a position he no longer holds. It is one thing to tell somebody what you believed, it is a whole other thing to defend it now, whcn you don't believe it. As my friend Chris Levis says, it is a little like Protestants helping Catholics pick a new Pope, Christians advising Mormons on whether to follow Brigham Young or not, or otherwise helping a young Muslim decide whether the Sunnis or Shias are the true Muslims.[1] It's a fools errand.

I agreed to post his answers in full. But I must also put a disclaimer. Like the political candidate who ought to completely annul and disassociate himself from an endorsement by the Klu Klux Klan, so I must disavow his views supposedly defending a particular view of Christianity. I will not enter the charade by debating his answers "as a Christian". I will challenge Chris to repent and believe the gospel. What follows are the questions I asked (in red) and his bifurcated answers.

Can a person be a Christian who does not believe in the death and resurrection of Christ?

Chris As A Christian:

No. I believe that Jesus Christ died for my sins and that he

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