Feil1
06-01-2006, 07:15
Well, a while ago I started thinking again about a book I read a quite a few years ago--"Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel.
While, when reading or reading reviews of some of Strobel's other books, I have discovered that any intellectual honsety he may have once had, he has apparently squandered and become fundie-fied, "Case for Christ" remains in my memory as a well-done and convincing narrative. A bit of applied criticality made me disagree slightly with Strobel's leap from a demonstration that Jesus was a real-life religious leader of early AD who started a neo-Judeic cult that eventually grew into Christianity to a conclusion that JC was god (though, at the time, I hadn't reasoned myself out of my ancestral religion yet, and was inclined to agree with just about any conclusion he made).
I'm thinking of digging around for the book again, maybe buying it if I can't find it, and re-reading it now with a fresh mind, but I'd like to hear the opinion of the estimed mishmash of random flame warriors that is NS General on the subject, or the book, or both, before I do so.
Thoughts?
[I bet 1 virtual cookie that this will last 1.5 pages before desintegrating into flames. Any takers?]
While, when reading or reading reviews of some of Strobel's other books, I have discovered that any intellectual honsety he may have once had, he has apparently squandered and become fundie-fied, "Case for Christ" remains in my memory as a well-done and convincing narrative. A bit of applied criticality made me disagree slightly with Strobel's leap from a demonstration that Jesus was a real-life religious leader of early AD who started a neo-Judeic cult that eventually grew into Christianity to a conclusion that JC was god (though, at the time, I hadn't reasoned myself out of my ancestral religion yet, and was inclined to agree with just about any conclusion he made).
I'm thinking of digging around for the book again, maybe buying it if I can't find it, and re-reading it now with a fresh mind, but I'd like to hear the opinion of the estimed mishmash of random flame warriors that is NS General on the subject, or the book, or both, before I do so.
Thoughts?
[I bet 1 virtual cookie that this will last 1.5 pages before desintegrating into flames. Any takers?]