From Dan Delagrave

Sunday, September 24, 2000

Read some of your material. It was disturbing to see you teaching against faith in Christ. I am concerned for you. You seem to mock the teachings of Paul, meaning that you don’t consider them to be inspired. Where IS your faith sir?… in works or in Jesus?? Who is your Saviour? What you are teaching is NOT the gospel (good news of Jesus Christ)!

Thanks for your concern, but my interest is in truth not in faith. One can have faith in anything, but truth is harder to find. Why not place your faith in truth and make the world a better place rather than hoping for salvation elsewhere? Blessings to you for your polite style of inquiry.

Mike, The Bible has been confirmed as completely accurate and true time and again through archaeology, the dead sea scrolls, secular history, science, etc…

I suggest you read my pages more carefully. What you say is the opposite of the truth. The bible has not been confirmed in most respects, certainly before the time of Omri. You can only make a statement like this out of ignorance or deceit. I trust you are not deceitful, so I suggest that you look again at the evidence you think is so clear.

You seem to have a predisposed bias against anything the Bible has to say. The scriptures were inspired of God and are profitable for teaching, exhortation and doctrine.

Well, you might think the bible was inspired by God but the evidence in this world was that God was not concentrating at the time. The bible was written by men.

Your theories make the Bible to be nothing more than a Jewish conspiracy.

I actually say that the Jewish scriptures were a Persian conspiracy to persuade the Jews that the Persian king was the only true king. The Jews decided that Cyrus was their messiah, so it seemed to have worked at the time. The astonishing thing is that it is still going. The Maccabees certainly made their own changes and Psalms were probably being added to the corpus even at the time of Jesus.

I do not doubt the sincerity of your faith, but it is only faith, so it cannot be right to pretend that external evidence supports it when it does not.

Skeptical Resources—Internet infidels | Jesus Never Existed | Steven Carr’s Website | Christianism | Early Christian Writings | God is Imaginary | “Religion Detoxification” | Our Judaio-Christian Heritage | Jesus is a Myth | No Deity | No Beliefs | Evil Bible | Bible God | ex-Christians | Jesus Police | Islamic Faith Freedom | American Atheists | Jovial Atheist | Askwhy! books
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