ArgentinaDixit said...
I'm sorry Ben. What an old and fool tricky way to critic the other sources and not offer arguments at all. Start by give us Evidence (yes, evidence)
of what zeitgeist say is wrong.
Carl Sagan (yes, an atheist but a brilliant mind too) said: "You can't convince a believer of nothing at all, because his believe is not based on
Evidence, just based on a deep need to believe".
People can believe anything they want. But the fact, evidence and truth is a completely different thing sometimes from what people need to believe.
Have you ever reduce your entirely universe of thinking to a minimal point?
Did you find that the only thing that remains after that is your faith?
Did you ever analized your faith?
Did you check your faith in terms of truth and lie?
You have to find and seek the truth, and the truth will make you free.
Need a little bit more than attack other sources to convice people.
Need evidences.
Cheers.
Diego.
Buenos Aires, Argentina.
5:20 AM
Ben Witherington said...
Hola Diego:
What I have done in this limited post is shown the fradulent nature of this movie, and what poor and indeed distorted evidence it is based on. I quite
agree with you that positive evidence is needed to present a case for a different worldview, but that was not the point of this post. I have provided
many such evidences in my some 30 books, so now it is your turn to go and assess them. I would suggest you start with my book New Testament History,
and when you finish that, we can talk again, and I will commend more sources to you.
In the meantime, lets please not cite Carl Sagan as a supporter of theories of this movie, because he would have repudiated them as based on bad and
unscientific evidence frankly. Sagan also knew better than to say that believers only have their faith to hang on to, not empirical evidence. This
would be a complete caricature of the Christian faith. You might enjoy reading Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ.
Felice Navidad to you and yours in Argentina,
Ben Witherington
8:31 AM
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