In my post yesterday, I alerted everyone to the article on FOXnews.com about Paul Verhoeven (the BRILLIANT mind that brought us 'Basic Instinct', 'Showgirls', and 'Starship Troopers' to name of few) has written a book that makes some ridiculous and offensive claims about Jesus Christ. One of Vehoeven's claims, that the article mentions, is that Jesus was conceived due to the fact that Mary was raped by a Roman soldier.
According to the article, Verhoeven has been actively involved with the Jesus Seminar. Please take time to read up on that group and make your own conclusion on their work.
After a lot of thought, I've decided not really to rant as much as I planned. I can't convince anyone to believe or not believe in the divinity of Christ. I can tell you that while I often question parts of the Bible, my faith in Christ is solid.
Below is a quote, courtesy of Wikipedia, of C.S. Lewis from his book Mere Christianity:
Christian apologist C. S. Lewis popularised this argument in a 1943 BBC radio broadcast which later formed the basis of his book Mere Christianity.
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronising nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. ... Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God." [4]
I think this is a great argument for the divinity of Christ.
Thoughts anyone?
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Yeah that's a really great book. Have you read it? If not, borrow a copy or hit the library and find it. It's great. I also have another CS Lewis book that has quotes from that book and several others that are really great too. I've written a few posts (1, 2, and 3)
over Mere Christianity.
Yeah, it's like all the stuff you can read up about Oprah and the gnosticism she's pushing (I did write a post joking about it though - same lines as this post)... it's worth knowing that it's not exactly all that it's cracked up to be.
That and I've never really been big into telling everyone I know about how ___ or ____ is so completely wrong, or going to hell or anything. That's just me....
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