In Defense of Dwindling Probability – Part 2
I see that Plantinga’s skeptical argument refers to “Dwindling Probabilities” rather than “Dwindling Probability”. Sorry about my failure to get the name of this topic quite right. I should mention that I did not learn about this sort of skeptical argument from the Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga. I learned about the Multiplication Rule of probablity … In Defense of Dwindling Probability – Part 2
In Defense of Dwindling Probability
One claim involved in the case for the resurrection of Jesus is this: D. Jesus died on the same day he was crucified. The truth of this claim depends on the truth of some prior claims: E. Jesus existed. C. Jesus was crucified. A probability tree diagram can illustrate how claim (D) involves dwindling probability … In Defense of Dwindling Probability
Response to William Lane Craig – Part 7
I have another objection to raise against Luke Johnson’s use of the “method of convergence” to support the reliability of the Gospels or the “historical framework” of the Gospels (emphasis added by me): As I have tried to show, the character of the Gospel narratives does not allow a fully satisfying historical reconstruction of Jesus’ ministry. … Response to William Lane Craig – Part 7
Response to William Lane Craig – Part 6
In Part 4 of this series, we saw that in a table (presented by Johnson in The Real Jesus) listing seventeen different claims about Jesus that are based on the Gospel accounts (and allegedly supported by various other “outsider” and “insider” writings), that about half of those claims were trivial, vacuous, or very vague, so … Response to William Lane Craig – Part 6
Response to William Lane Craig – INDEX
The well-known Christian apologist Dr. William Lane Craig has read at least two of my posts from 2014 criticizing his case for the resurrection of Jesus, and he responded to some of my objections: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/establishing-the-crucifixion-of-jesus Here are the blog posts of mine that Dr. Craig addresses: ========================================== After discovering (completely by accident) that Dr. Craig had … Response to William Lane Craig – INDEX
Violence Against Religion?
Victor Reppert posted this on his Dangerous Idea blog under the title “Why Not?”: “OK, suppose you think that religion really does harm, and we really have to do what we can to stamp it out. Most of us don’t have the opportunity to help establish or eliminate religion by the use of violence. But … Violence Against Religion?
Silence from the three Nazi, I mean GOP, Presidential Candidates
If a presidential candidate attended a NAZI rally to try to get some votes, and if the leader of the rally spewed hate-mongering rhetoric about working towards a “final solution” for the “Jewish problem” in the USA, do you think the mass media would be interested in reporting this event? Do you think the mass … Silence from the three Nazi, I mean GOP, Presidential Candidates
Response to William Lane Craig – Part 5
Although biblical scholars who are more skeptical about the Gospels (than Evangelical Christian biblical scholars) do sometimes make general statements about the crucifixion and death of Jesus on the cross being highly probable, when we look into the details of their views about the Gospels and about the stories about Jesus being crucified, we see that they … Response to William Lane Craig – Part 5
Luke Johnson and the Resurrection of Jesus
In my second post responding to William Craig on his point that the death of Jesus on the cross is uncontroversial among biblical scholars, I focused in on the first two biblical scholars that he gave as examples: Robert Funk and Luke Johnson: =================== Many Biblical Scholars Do NOT Believe that Jesus was Alive and … Luke Johnson and the Resurrection of Jesus
Jesus End: The Formal Possibilities
There is often discussion of the resurrection apologetic here at SO. Some newcomers to the conversation may be put off by the complexity of it all. In hopes of providing a user-friendly introduction to the context of the debates, I offer the following: Innumerable scenarios could be and have been advanced about the fate of … Jesus End: The Formal Possibilities