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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

New Archeological Find Proves Christianity is a Fraud. Again.

Posted by Anthony on July 5, 2008

You hear about these kinds of things every now and then. I’m blogging on an article I saw today on a tablet they are calling “Gabriel’s Revelation.” Here it is.

This is the first that I’ve heard of this tablet and haven’t seen the text allegedly inscribed on it. I only have what is in the article, so I’m going tread lightly on the stone’s implications as evidence for or against Christianity. What I found really interesting was the glimpse into the scholarly community and its approach to research into the Historical Jesus. Let me just issue some running commentary.

Let’s start with the first paragraph.

A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.

A nice opening paragraph. Too bad the whole rest of the article softens this considerably. In the first place, the article goes on to say only that they are confident that the tablet dates to the first century. The sole justification for placing it ‘decades just before the birth of Jesus’ is analysis of the style of the text. And the whole business about rising from the dead after three days turns out to be the pet view of what one scholar thinks the hard to read words should be construed.

Here we have an example of a provocative opening that is basically false, but you only know that if you read on, and how many people will read on? Give it time and this will be leading the news and trumpets will be blaring that Jesus’ resurrection was just borrowed Jewish mythology, one more reason it can’t be true! A month later after all the truth comes out, you won’t hear about it on the news, leaving hundreds of thousands witih the impression that the tablet means just as it was first presented.

Moving on. Read the rest of the entry… »