17 Reasons why Christianity should NOT have succeeded....
"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding
Factor #14 -- An Ignorant Deity?But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; 1 Corinthians 1:27
"Scholars of all persuasions have long recognized the "criteria of embarrassment" as a marker for
authentic words of Jesus. Places where Jesus claims to be ignorant (not knowing the day or hour of his return; not knowing who touched him in the crowd) or shows weakness are taken as honest recollections and authentic (even where miracles stories often are not!). This is a lesser cousin of the crucifixion factor above -- if you want a decent deity, you have to make him fully respectable. You have to have a trump card to overcome that seeming two of spades; otherwise critics like Celsus have more axes to grind."J.P.Holding
"17 factors to be considered -- places where Christianity "did the wrong thing" in order to be a successful religion. It is my contention that the only way Christianity did succeed is because it was a truly revealed faith -- and because it had the irrefutable witness of the Resurrection." J.P.Holding
Factor #14 -- An Ignorant Deity?But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; 1 Corinthians 1:27
"Scholars of all persuasions have long recognized the "criteria of embarrassment" as a marker for