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Kudos to Koukl

Last night the The Lost Tomb of Jesus aired on the Discovery Channel. I watched it with a friend and also watched the follow-up show with Ted Koppel which I thought was very good. I must say that I was quite disappointed with the evidence that was presented and the manner in which was presented. I am admittedly a skeptic when it comes to faith claims and my faith in Christ has decreased quite a bit in the last few years and so I would be certainly open to a finding of the “bones of Jesus” and would have no theological axe to grind which would oppose me to such findings. There are plenty of arguments that show that Christianity is based on faulty assumptions in my opinion but the Lost Tomb of Jesus is not one of them. In fact I found it rather annoying at times. The amount of leaps of logic that were made were nothing short of embarrassing for a person who is skeptical of Christianity and would even welcome a find like this.

I mentioned in my previous post about the Christian response to this and briefly talked about how i believe the most telling thing of all is that many Christians rule out the possibility of this sort of find without even considering the evidence. I got an email from a Christian web site that I subscribe to called Stand to Reason and I was very impressed by what Greg Koukl said in his response to this documentary. I have always respected Greg even though I do not agree with many things that he teaches and believes because he is very open for debate and does not stick his head in the sand like so many others do. I would recommend that you read the article that he wrote here. He both takes many Christians to task for their panic and total rejection of any critical analysis of their faith, and also shows the deficiencies of the documentary in a very cogent manner.

Good Job Greg!

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