Recycled Jesus
Another of the articles I saw while I was away last month was one from Catholic Answer’s Matt Fradd, speaking about the supposed relationship between Jesus and Pagan deities: Is Jesus a spin-off of Pagan Deities?
Category: Catholicism
“There is no evidence for the existence of God”
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be posting one of his short videos responding to the common claims of Atheists:
Dialog with Jerry: Part 3 (The kitchen sink)
Over the last couple of days I’ve been posting (with permission, of course) some of my exchange with a Protestant called Jerry. The final portion of his email took a wide tour of Catholic teaching and contained lots of assertions and various accusations tangential to our main conversation. For the sake of providing him with some basic answers, I responded to each of them briefly…
The Saint-Making Marriage
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”:
Jesus: Roman Invention
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…
Dialog with Jerry: Part 2 (Scripture)
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…
Dialog with Jerry: Part 1 (Sola Scriptura)
I recently devoted several posts to an exchange I had with a sedevacantist called Mike in the hope that, if you ever encounter a sedevacantist like him, you’ll have some idea as to what to expect.
Well, a little while ago I had some correspondence with a non-Catholic Christian named Jerry and I thought it would also be helpful if I posted some of that exchange here as well.
As often happens, we began our discussion by focussing on the Reformation doctrine of “Sola Scriptura” (“Scripture Alone”), the subject of my recent four-part series. As you can see from our exchange below, Jerry was a little confused as to the meaning of this Latin phrase…