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Luckily for us (as Paul said) we don't rely on high sounding philosophy, but the simplicity of the gospel :)

I'm not sure what you mean, but it says that Goliath "cursed David by the names of his gods." 1 Samuel 17:43

I remember reading a book where part of it talked about the subject of the killings in the OT. The context of when God had ordered people to be destroyed (including women, and children) is because God saw that the culture was so corrupt that there was no hope for the people, even the children...

Jesus also said "Judge not, lest ye be judged." Our job as God's children is to love each other, and pray for each other. No matter what God will do what is right.

Totally. Sin is really horrible.

My teacher in this Philosophy and Religion class I took 2 years ago said that by "rich man" he means "one who hordes."

I wish we read stuff like that in my public school. Shakespeare is so over-rated :p

You mean, like, the main Hindu god?

You seem to have missed a laps of logic in your own statement. Logicaly you can't have "A" and "not A" in the same relationship at the same time. So to say that uncertainty is certain is not logical. :p Ah, but there is much more to the world than mankind: It seems you are looking for...

Yes, I agree with you that nothing is certain, but is that even certain? What you have to look at is probability. The Bible is not third-hand, I don't know where you heard that from, for most credible scholars (even skeptical ones) agree that the historical reliability of the New Testament is...

There's ways to find out. I just finished a really cool book called "The Case for the Real Jesus" by Lee Strobel. He wants to find out what history says about Jesus (and if other accounts about Jesus' life are accurate too), and what are the most accurate documents about Jesus. If you see it in...

No, most scholars agree that Matthew and John were written by the respective apostles. Mark was written by John Mark, a friend of Peter, and Luke traveled with Paul who also asked many people who had been around Jesus so "you may know the truth from the beginning."

Well, what do you think the early church taught? Christianity is based on Christ, why would they talk about something else? And how do you claim to know so much about God? The god you think may exist apparently does not care about truth. You seem to exclude the possibility that God cares about...

Nah, man. your Analogy of presidential aids is flawed in that the Apostles were quite different than presidential aids. The early church lived, ate, and breathed Jesus' teaching. They didn't merely disregard the memories of him untill 50 years later, when they decide to write it down. The whole...

Historical Scholarship backs up the Bible immensely. Every method historians use to judge a historical text's reliability the New Testament has in spades; far, far more than any other ancient document known to man. I'd recommend this cool book called "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel. It'.s...

Let me ask you something. Do you have any idea when these apocrypha were written? The dates for when the New Testament were written was within a generation of Jesus' death. The documents were being circulated around by the early church and used long before they were compiled into the Bible. They...

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. However this guy, apart from being a highly qualified scholar, he himself was a skeptic who's "own faith was sharpened by a period of doubt that he went through at the end of his graduate studies in 1985... however, his renewed investigation of the evidence...

Well why would he lie?

I dunno about the tax time you're talking about, but that statement is simply not true. The roman historian Tacitus said this: Such ideas are not my own. What I said I read from scholar Michael Licona, M.A., PH.D. Again, 5 of these facts are: 1) Jesus was killed by crucifixion 2) Jesus'...

I would say, if what you claim in your book holds up under historic scrutiny, then the facts must be accounted for. But what's the best way to account for the facts that history supports? (like what can we know from history about you that the best explanation would be that you are God almighty?)...