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To: PieterCasparzen
"but as he made various points he did not even address what would be a theological response to each of his points."

You would have to cite examples. I don't think, for the most part, theology makes for persuasive apologetics because it generally begs the question.

32 posted on 05/17/2011 9:50:39 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: circlecity

I can give one. In that pathetic little essay Russell chastises Jesus for cursing the fig tree. He sees it as gratuitously cruel.

The cursing of the fig tree cannot be understood outside of a thoroughly theological context. But Russell didn’t bother to look beneath the surface of his simplistic, facile reading. He read the Gospel account on HIS terms, rather than on its own terms, and with knowing something of the theological context which is necessary to understand why Jesus cursed the fig tree.


34 posted on 05/17/2011 9:56:35 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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