Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Prof. John Lennox | The Logic of Christianity" video.

  1. I could wish for a thousand (or a million) John Andersons, though.
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  2.  @myopenmind527  The Gospels. Out of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, John and Matthew were eyewitnesses. Mark took dictation from Peter, who was an eyewitness. Luke actually did some decent historiography and interviewed quite a number of witnesses - a bit like the Captain who interviewed Waterloo veterans, to give us a better idea of what happened at that battle, than in most of the battles of history. You should probably read up on this a bit better before you comment about it. I'm happy enough to fill you in on what I know of it, but authors like Lennox have a much better breadth of knowledge on the subject. Get onto Amazon and pick up some of his books. It should be a good education for you. =)
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  3.  @myopenmind527  You're assuming that we have the capability to know more about these historical events from where we sit today, than we can know about them by reading eyewitness reports. You're assuming even that the nature of God, and our salvation -- the questions you ask there -- are knowable, beyond what we can read in Scripture. Why did Aristotle believe that the Sun went around the Earth? Because he didn't have the ability to observe stellar parallax. He looked at the "fixed" stars, and said, "They'd be shifting around with respect to one another like the planets, if the Earth went around the Sun", and concluded (based on what he could know) that our universe was geocentric. Atheists have the same problem as Aristotle, here. They don't know what they're missing. Worse, actually -- they're willfully blind. We are saved because of Christ's sacrifice. He was born of a virgin. He rose again three days after being crucified. The fact that God chose these things to happen (they were reported by many, and recorded well within the lifetimes of those who witnessed them) gives us a critical source of wisdom we wouldn't otherwise have, simply looking around at what we can see today.
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  4.  @myopenmind527  There's a formal fallacy -- I think it's called the "generative fallacy", though I could be wrong -- that states that judging the accuracy of an idea based on its source, is illogical. It's related to ad hominem, or arguments from authority.
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