"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I know I’ve made two posts today and generally try and keep to that limit, but this one is just too good not to share. Here is a post my one of my all-time favourite bloggers, Dr. Thomas Neal, on his blog Neal Obstat. It is entitled “Saint-making marriage”:
You may have been hearing recently about a guy called Joseph Atwill who is going around saying that he has proof that Jesus was a piece of Roman fiction. If any of your friends post about this on Facebook, I’d invite you to post in response a link to the following article by Catholic Answers apologist, Jimmy Akin.
Jimmy decimates Atwill’s hypothesis. Jimmy can do this because, quite frankly, Atwill’s assertions are utterly ridiculous and probably the worst “mythist” theory I’ve ever heard…
Continuing my exchange with Jerry, we moved onto the subject of Scripture itself. As you’ll see, I spent a lot of time asking questions about Jerry’s various assertions and trying to get at his underlying assumptions…
