| A young college woman sits down at her
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| | don't really exist. The ancient Greek
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| desk on the first day of a course on
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| | Olympians similarly had a disdain for the
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| comparative religion. She thinks it's a
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| | material world.
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| good deal. She gets college credit for a
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| | To them, anything physical or material
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| casual review of her own Christian faith
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| | was lower than the realm of spirit and
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| and gets to learn about other world
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| | was corrupt. This is why many people of
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| religions.
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| | the ancient world had a hard time
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| The professor enters the room fashionably
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| | accepting the Christian doctrine of the
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| late. He's casually dressed in frumpy
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| | incarnation.
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| clothes and his hair is in a thin gray
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| | The incarnation is the Christian doctrine
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| ponytail that's so tight it stretches all
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| | that Jesus, Himself being divine, was
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| the wrinkles out of his face. What
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| | born as a baby and grew to manhood. In
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| follows in that first class and
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| | other words God took on human flesh and
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| throughout the rest of the semester is a
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| | dwelt among us.
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| battle for the souls of the students in
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| | The Olympian, Hindu-like religion
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| the class.
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| | dominated the thinking of the Pagans of
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| The professor's secular, atheistic,
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| | the ancient world. It is from this soil
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| materialist bias is revealed from the
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| | that Gnosticism grew. Gnosticism was a
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| first time he opens his mouth. He
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| | syncretism (mixture) of Christianity and
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| nevertheless gives all religions a
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| | Olympianism. Full blown Gnosticism didn't
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| modicum of respect except for traditional
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| | appear until the second or third
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| Christianity for which he reveals
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| | centuries AD.
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| unvarnished disdain.
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| | The sacred texts of Gnosticism were
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| The professor, when dealing with the
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| | written in the second and third centuries
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| Christian faith, attacks it in a manner
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| | which removes them a long way from the
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| commonly used in comparative religion
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| | historical events of the life of Jesus
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| classes in college. His bright shining
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| | and the apostles. Traditional
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| lie is the claim that in the early
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| | Christianity and its sacred texts which
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| centuries of Christian history there were
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| | comprise the New Testament were
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| several "Christianities," each with their
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| | mainstream and generally accepted from
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| own sacred texts, competing with each
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| | the earliest days of church history long
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| other on a more or less equal basis to
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| | before gnosticism reached full flower.
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| become the dominant mainstream branch.
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| | The best scholarship shows that the books
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| (Incidentally, the murder mystery
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| | of the New Testament were written in the
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| thriller, The Da Vinci Code, promoted the
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| | first century. They were universally
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| view that a feminist Gnostic sect had the
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| | accepted by the early Christians and were
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| greater claim to be the true Christian
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| | later formally codified as the New
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| faith.) The truth is far different. The
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| | Testament.
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| truth is that traditional apostolic
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| | The Gnostic writings attempt to connect
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| Christianity, which is the Christianity
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| | Christ to a Greek philosophical and
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| of the New Testament, was the mainstream
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| | religious worldview. The Gnostic writings
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| form of Christianity from the very
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| | make little mention of real events of
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| earliest days of the church.
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| | real history. The traditional gospels and
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| The Gnostic sects are very different from
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| | epistles of the New Testament rightfully
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| traditional Christianity and are by no
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| | connect Christ to the Hebrew worldview
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| means on an equal scholarly footing with
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| | and make many references to real events
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| the traditional Christian faith.
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| | that occurred in real history.
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| Nevertheless, this "60's geek" professor
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| | The New Testament shows that Jesus was
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| with his persuasive words is able to
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| | the promised Messiah of Israel who came
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| shake the faith of some young Christian
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| | in fulfillment of over 300 Old Testament
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| students. A careful student who takes
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| | prophecies. No other faith, including
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| some time to do some research will see
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| | Gnosticism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,
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| through the "strawman" the professor has
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| | Shintoism and Jainism has anything to
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| set up.
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| | compare with the Old and New Testament
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| The "strawman" tactic is commonly used in
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| | record of prophecy and fulfillment of
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| debates and lectures. It consists of
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| | prophecy.
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| distorting Christianity into a strawman
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| | Most sacred writings of other faiths
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| of inaccuracies and contradictions and
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| | contain no prophecies at all. I have
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| then attacking the strawman and giving
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| | often said that the many hundreds of
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| the impression that Christianity has been
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| | Bible prophecies and their fulfillments
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| disproven.
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| | are like God's signature on His holy book
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| Let me give a thumbnail sketch of early
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| | and prove that God inspired the writing
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| church history. The religion of the
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| | of the Bible.
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| ancient Greeks was Olympianism which is
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| | The professor in that comparative
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| similar to the Hinduism of present day
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| | religion class would do well to look into
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| India. The Romans essentially adopted
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| | the matter of prophecy and fulfillment of
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| Olympianism but referred to the various
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| | prophecy. If he does he will find that
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| gods by Latin instead of Greek names.
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| | traditional biblical Christianity is
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| Hindus believe that the material world is
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| | beyond compare! Gnosticism is a faith
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| "Maya" which means illusion. The Hindus
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| | different from Christianity and it came
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| essentially believe that material objects
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| | centuries later.
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