Recent content by guyWithAquestion

Hi Steve, though I've engaged (and am currently engaged) in long debates with both atheists and Christians on my blog and in other forums, my agenda on here was to get book recommendations, as evidenced by how I titled the thread and my initial comments. And you guys did give me what I asked...

To all the commenters over the past couple months that I haven't responded to: Thanks for your comments, but, instead of dialoguing with you all, I'm going to spend my time going through How Jesus Became God (at least the two chapters on the resurrection), the book by atheist Bible scholar Bart...

Hi Swammer, I think the last chunk of your response I hadn't gotten to yet was your comments on Spong. However, I also started thinking I should go ahead and start working my way through the Ehrman book (How Jesus Became God), because then I could kill two birds with one stone. Since there...

Dear Swammerdami, Still working my way through your response, I don't think I addressed your comments on Paul's belief in the resurrection. and (in a later response): I contend that Paul does mention a physical resurrection. For the sake of time, I don't want to rehash the two blog posts I...

Hi Swammerdami, I'm going at a snail's pace here, but haven't forgotten this thread. I'm glad you brought up Mark 16:9-20, because it does seem like scholars generally doubt its authenticity, so it's worth looking into. When you mention "the earliest copies", could you provide some examples? As...

Dear Swammerdami, Thanks for your reply. ... You are using the perspective of natural science to analyze the prospects of Jesus's resurrection. But are Christians claiming that Jesus rose again through natural processes? Regarding hallucination theory, you quoted some of my arguments against...

Hi Swammerdami, it took me two years and 34 blog posts, but I finally finished the Habermas book. You asked me to bump the thread and summarize Habermas's best arguments...but I'd rather just provide a link to the final post, which does summarize his arguments...

Thanks for the recommendations, Charlie!

Thanks Swammerdami. I think I'll read the Habermas book and the Ehrman book. I was planning to write about my findings on my blog, but I might take your invitation to post about it here as well.

Thank you.

BTW I came over to this site because one of the reviewers of the Habermas (or similar) book mentioned this site as a good place to get other perspectives. And then I read on wikipedia that Habermas said this site is one of the main websites for skeptics. Anyway, thanks for your input.

Hi Keith, I just wanted to try to look at both sides of this topic. I did look through the reviews and elsewhere. Anybody have any comments (positive or negative) on any of these books? The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man by Robert Price Blessed Assurance? by Michael Tenenbaum How Jesus...

Hello, I'm going to read The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, by Gary Habermas. Can you please tell me which book you think would be the strongest, most direct counterpoint to the Habermas book? Thank you.