tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31896366.post3114704963999554120..comments2024-03-22T07:16:35.188+00:00Comments on Against Heresies: Doubting Jesus?Martin Downeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019053545918223050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31896366.post-87055113376900141982009-04-11T16:23:00.000+01:002009-04-11T16:23:00.000+01:00"what evidence is there in the gospels that "he kn..."what evidence is there in the gospels that "he knew he might actually be wrong"? What indications are there that Jesus ever had a crisis of faith about these things?"<BR/><BR/>- absolutely none of course, and plenty in the other direction.<BR/><BR/>These kinds of comments/speculations have the tendency to seriously undermine our understanding of Jesus as divine and acting as a divine person in the work of redemption.<BR/><BR/>Considering that he deliberately assumed human nature and deliberately came to the earth and was consciously about his Father's business from the start, and knew the Father as 'the Father who sent him', and robustly rebutted the temptation in the wilderness which specifically attacked his sense of identity and mission, and in his preaching pointed out how he fulfilled the OT prophecies, and and and - you know all this already, but you did ask :)cathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02161002101062247249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31896366.post-84614296495189016962009-04-09T04:55:00.000+01:002009-04-09T04:55:00.000+01:00Flew's traditional complaint, as an atheist and a ...Flew's traditional complaint, as an atheist and a deist, is with the Christian doctrine of Hell. He just can't accept it.<BR/><BR/>"For [WIlliam Lane] Craig believes that God assigns some of his creatures, perhaps most of them, to eternal torment in hell, and how is that gloomy idea supposed to fit with the idea that God is infinitely good and just?"<BR/><BR/>(Summary from "Does God exist?" p. 71)Travis Crollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12868406912271416535noreply@blogger.com