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TOP | RELIGION | CHRISTIANITYAnybody in this newsgroup, read this, and let's stop the stupid questions!
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From: "Fr. John W. Morris +"
Subject: Re: Anybody in this newsgroup, read this, and let's stop the stupid questions!
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 17:22:56 -0500
Matt Giwer wrote:
>
> Tom Wimsatt wrote:
>
> >Cthulhu wrote:
> >>
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> >I suggest you get a copy of Josh McDowell's _More_Than_A_Carpenter_ or
> >_Evidence_That_Demands_A_Verdict. Another author you might find helpful is
> >Simon Greenleaf although I do not have a specific title to reference.
>
> If they are the source of your lies, why bother?
Fr. John W. Morris responds:
Whoever wrote this, has shown their bias. You do not believe in Christ
because you do not want to believe. Your mind is already closed.
As Time magazine correctly pointed out, much of the so called scholarship
that rejects the message of the Bible is written by men and women who already
have an agenda that they want to prove. Thus they use the sources to make
them say what they want them to say. All of this so called scholarship is
bogus. It is not historical. Obviously these Biblical historians have not
studied the secular discipline of history, which I have. A true historian
looks at the sources with as little bias as possible and then draws his or
her conclusions. A true historian does not base his or her interpretations on
their own political or religious views, but lets the sources inform him or
her on the subject. A true historian does base his or her views of nothing
but speculation as do so many of the so called practitioners of the
historical critical method of Bible Study. People like those of the Jesus
Seminary do not believe in the divinity of Christ or miracles and shape
their study of the Bible to reinforce their preconceived bias. The historical
fact is that aside from some information about the society and politics of
first century Palestine and the Roman Empire there is nothing more that the
true historian can discover about Jesus Christ. There is only one source, the
New Testament. The historian can only report what the Bible says about
Christ. No one is in a position to prove that anything in the Bible is
mythology or forged, because we have no documentation to that effect. . We
have no sources that indicate that St. Paul perverted the message of Christ.
If St. Paul were writing and preaching something different than Christ taught
one would think that the 12 Apostle would challenge his ideas, yet we have no
evidence that they did. If the Apostles had changed the teaching of Christ,
one would think that someone who had heard Christ preach would have
challenged them. We have no source that does that All we have is the
speculation of a group of people who come up with wild theories to publish
books and enhance their position within the academic community. On the other
hand, we have nothing to prove that the Biblical account is true. Outside of
Christian documents, which are biased towards the Christian religion, we have
nothing else to prove that Christ rose from the dead, was born of a virgin or
did miracles. Thus, serious historians cannot prove or disprove the New
Testament teachings concerning Christ. Therefore, we are left with one
thing, faith. If a person lacks faith, there is no way that anyone will be
able to prove to them that Christ rose from the dead or did miracles much
less that He is God Incarnate, all of which I believe.
Fr. John +
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