[Apologetics] My "fan" club

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Stephen Korsman wrote:

> "Catholics have drunk and are unable to see this false religion as it really
> is, one of the instruments of Satan to dishonor the name of God on earth."
> 
> If you take a look at the first (bottom) post, you'll see some strict
> criteria for my answers to his questions - such as a maximum of one (1)
> citation from the Bible for each answer.  And historical evidence is
> excluded.

I must be drinking from the same well.  (Reference to an Assembly of God
pop singer Carman song about getting "drunk in the Spirit".)

When people ask me how they can know Christianity is true, I tell them
that it is based on history - with the Bible being a divinely inspired and
preserved historical document.  God's instructed Israel and the Church
to create memorials to preserve the memory of His visible actions.

Excluding historical evidence puts any discussion on a purely metaphysical
level.  I'm not a strict logical positivist, but I don't put much stock
in pure metaphysics either.

If they truly reject all historical evidence, I'd say this group is right up
there with the church in my area that proclaims "all creeds are an abomination"
on their "statement of faith".

It is possible, that they are open to historical evidence - as long as
it isn't "tainted" by that evil Catholic organization.  The blog, however,
uses the phrase "Church Fathers" to refer to the rejected evidence.
The difficulty is, the argument is over the actual practice of early
Christians.  The early Christians are by definition "Church Fathers".
Since they already admit that the Bible does not address the issue,
that pretty much rejects all possible evidence in the matter.  Unless,
that is, Mr. Reis is claiming that all of Christianity, not just 
the Catholic Church is the "false religion".

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