Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!samsung!rex!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: davidbu@loowit.wr.tek.com (David E. Buxton) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Don't mean to be rude, but....... Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 91 09:22:05 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 34 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu This posting is for those who think that Christianity is merely a superstition. Some time ago I read a small book, "Who Moved The Stone", by Frank Morison. The author was from a German university famous for the Agnostics that graduated there. Frank was one of them. Instead of simply intelluctually arguing his pet theories with his friends of like mind he decided to go one step better. He set out to prove the whole story of Jesus to be a fraud. He put his analytical mind to work on the Gospels and he also studied secular literature and documents as well as what ever Jewish sourced material he could lay his hands on. He started out convinced that the story of Jesus was a fiction and so he searched the records to prove it so. What is interresting is that there are quite a number of stories of such critics of Christ who went out to the archaeolical digs and the musty archives of history who came back from their quest as Christians with a conviction of that Jesus did indeed live here as the Gospels say He did and that He is indeed divine as He claims to be. And so my challenge to you Agnostics and Aetheists: Go prove what has not yet been proved. Instead of simply hyping up your theories in the company of your budies, go out there and really dig up the evidence to prove the whole story a fraud. Really get into it and I can assure you that you will return a Christian. Stick with your parlour games and you will never know what you have missed. This is not a spectator sport for those who wish to toss tomatoes from the bleachers. You have to go dig up some real evidence one way or the other. Go for it! Dave