Response to David Boles (2)
Comments(1)Okay, looking over my last post, I realized that I spent more time berating Christians for poor treatment of non-Christians as well as for lack of basic skill in apologetics than I actually spent answering the specific charges that David Boles presented in his blog post here. So that is what I will do with this post.
As I previously stated, Mr. Boles has an overall tone of vindication, as if this discovery somehow kills Christianity. His lead not only reveals his position, but presupposes the conclusion: “Big news was broken yesterday: Jesus and his family have been founded [sic] dead in their graves in Israel.” This statement is very true. A man named Jesus was found dead in his grave with his family. That does not mean that this is the Lord Jesus, which is (of course) what Mr. Boles is aiming to say, especially in light of the distasteful graphic on his page.
Presupposing that this is the Lord Jesus, Mr. Boles asks the question of how to “translate God,” which I think means how are Christians going to define God in light of this new discovery. Boles’s opinion of God is thus: Read more »
