re judas crucifixion tyre etc david joslin joslin pogo isp pitt edu wrote af yfn ysu edu frank decenso jr writes based on the amount of e mail from fellow christians who have read the posts and told me i was wasting my time with butler and joslin i told them i wasn t doing it for db or dj but for other christians they have told me that db s and dj s arguments won t convince most bible studying christians so i have reevaluated my purpose here and it s also contributed to my decision so most bible studying christians won t be convinced by my arguments and this is supposed to be a good thing i presume where does this most bible studying christians think as frank does come from and what implied good are you doing for other christians at least some of what you are teaching has been demonstrated as wrong has it ever occured to you that you may be doing more harm than good to your fellow christians btw i used to think like frank does i went to a fundamentalist church for a while i didn t start to really think about what they were saying until i noticed a god s science phamphlet there i read it and noticed that the authors of it knew virtually nothing about science i asked church members some questions about theories from the phamphlet and got only deceptive answers i began to notice a very similar style of answers for theological questions as well the only conclusion i could reach was that these peoples beliefs about the bible were about as valid as their beliefs in their god s science phamphlet if there are still people out there who think that my purpose here is to attack the bible an accusation frank once made i would point out that i have also criticized people who have posted bible contradictions that turn out to be silly out of context or easily and legitimately reconciled i m not attacking the bible but intellectual dishonesty about the bible from either side if one of the primary purposes of christians is to seek out truth how can people condemn you for doing this dale skiba
