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To: CatoRenasci
But, that notwithstanding, nothing you nor I do will change the fact that taking a Biblical inerrancy position will get you and your ideas written off faster than almost anything...

...thanks to the anti-intellectual position taken by most advocates of Biblical inerrancy. I linked to the website because Clark has written extensively about the failures of secular philosophy to avoid self-refutation. Christians may not be able to convince secular philosophers of the truth of scripture (only the Holy Spirit can do that), but an intellectually rigourous Christian can point to the fatal flaws in secular philosophies and to the coherence of Christianity.

36 posted on 06/18/2004 2:57:08 PM PDT by Tares
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To: Tares
.thanks to the anti-intellectual position taken by most advocates of Biblical inerrancy

Indeed, but I would amend "most" to "virtually all".

an intellectually rigourous Christian can point to the fatal flaws in secular philosophies...

Surely, that's correct. But, it has to be done in the language of secular philosophy or you lose them. Unless you've been in a serious university philosophy department, you have no inkling of how alien Christian theological argument is to the way philosophers think. It stands completely outside their categories. I have known well-respected professional philosophers who considered themselves seriously believing Christians, some Roman Catholic, some (mainline) Protestant. However, that was for them a matter of faith, not of their professional work.

37 posted on 06/18/2004 3:14:24 PM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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