Aren’t All Religions Essentially the Same?
February 24, 2015
- Please Listen to the Wayne State Debate Prior to 3/31/2015
- Archived at http://wayne.edu/live and on YouTube at http://tinyurl.com/l43qufj
- Bruce Russell Handout, for reference
- Last class in this course (April 7, 2014): The Problem of Evil
- Shortened Class on March 24: Visit with MCREST guests after class.
- Questions and Answers from Last Week’s Discussions and the Readings for This Evening
- Quiz and Review of Quiz
- Follow-Up Discussion: Chapter 5: Which God Exists?
- The Elephant and the Blind Men
- The Glass Slipper
- Atheism (including Buddhism) /
- Agnosticism / Pantheism / Panentheism / Finite Godism
- Polytheism (including Hinduism and Mormonism) / Deism
- Monotheism
- Particularism (Coherent, Evidence-receptive, Parallels Morality + Science)
- Conclusion
- Booklet: Joseph R. Farinaccio, Faith with Reason: Why Christianity is True, http://tinyurl.com/kgkg2e2
- Discussion
- Introduction: Isn’t the New Testament a corrupted, unreliable text??
- Origin (Chapter 6)
- Textual Criticism (Chapter 7)
- Existential Questions:
- (How) Can I trust what I am reading in the New Testament?
- (Why) Should this book matter to me?
- Is the story true? Is the depiction of God true? Is there a Kingdom of Heaven?
- Where do I Look for the Answers?
- In the Bible?
- Outside of the Bible?
- The Key Question: Are the claims of the New Testament true?
- Who chose the books and how were they chosen?
- Four Categories: Spurious, Widely Accepted, Canonical, Heretical (Eusebius)
- Councils of Carthage and Hippo
- Textual Criticism
- Transmission
- Manuscript Authority
- Thousands of Errors
- Unintentional Variances
- Intentional Variances
- Archaeology
- Non-Christian Writings (Extra-Biblical)
- Claim of Inspiration
- For Next Week:
- Read Holman text:
- Chapter 06: Where did the New Testament Come From?
- Chapter 07: Is the New Testament Reliable?
- Kyle Butt, “That Which We Have Seen and Heard,” http://tinyurl.com/o3gfm28
- Read Holman text:
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