Thanks for the thread.
It is a danger. Even Paul was fighting deception in the church from almost its very inception.
The Council at Jerusalem addresses some of the issues that had come up in just a few short years.
Yes, atheists and those opposed to Christianity are great at what they think is the *gotcha* game.
Except they really don’t know what they are talking about.
Except they really don’t know what they are talking about.
I don't like to generalize, but that's simply been my experience debating atheists over and over again. Sometimes they call me a coward for declining to debate, but I've come to view it as a fruitless exercise. My experience is that most atheists are trapped in cognitive dissonance and are unable to see out of their naturalistic bubble...and the "debate" usually consists of gotcha questions and straw man arguments ("Hee hee! You believe in an invisible man in the sky!").
I find it intellectually unfulfilling and a waste of time. So many atheists are trapped viewing Christianity in the Sunday-school-religion form. Which is why they make stupid arguments like "snakes can't talk!" or what-have-you.