On Apr 23, 1:01 pm, Tracey Maddow <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 22, 7:52 pm, atypican <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Here is a debate between my brothers pastor (James White) and a > > leading Biblical Scholar (Bart Ehrman) I think it is good reading for > > bible worshipers and those who are highly critical of bible worship. > > >http://a-civil-religious-debate.googlegroups.com/web/805Transcript.pd... > > > Perhaps in this thread you could include in your comments whose > > position you most support > > > I hope I let my biases show :) > > James White won by a landslide. One single argument stand out for me, > that the standard on Bart Ehrman on looking for originals of the > different books and epistles of in order for the NT canon to be > believable, holds no water. He might as well throw away or disregard > any book that he had read, that is older than the 4th century because > he can never find the originals. Then, he might as well burn all the > books of Plato, Herodutos, Aristotle, Sophocles, Homer, etc because he > will never find the originals.
We don't need to burn old books just because we can't authenticate them. We should just treat them with a reasonable and healthy skepticism. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "A Civil Religious Debate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/a-civil-religious-debate?hl=en.
