I mentioned in Gospel Disproof #32 that your salvation depends on believing what fallible men say about God. A Christian commenter named Eric replied: Not at all. God has given us His supernaturally preserved Word which has proved to be a trustworthy guide for life and practice through the ages. He is referring to the …
Category Archive: Gospel Disproofs
Jan 24 2012
Dialogs with Eric, Part 2: Does God believe what men say?
In my post on salvation by faith, I mentioned the fact that God does not behave as though He believed all the things men say about Him, particularly as concerns His alleged love for us and His alleged desire to be part of a personal, loving and real relationship with each of us. Eric takes …
Jan 23 2012
Dialogs with Eric
Last week I had a Gospel Disproof on the topic of “salvation by faith,” and a believer by the name of Eric has been kind enough to offer me a Christian response to the points I’ve raised. Since one of the points he raises repeatedly is that I haven’t said enough about certain topics, I …
Jan 20 2012
Gospel Disproof #32: Salvation by faith
In Gospel Disproof #28 we looked at conditional salvation and how bizarre it was to suppose that a loving and self-sufficient Father would create a situation where His beloved children would go to Hell forever unless they met certain rarely-obtained conditions. As a parenting scenario, it just doesn’t work, but by an odd coincidence it …
Jan 19 2012
Gospel Disproof #31: Burning coals
Ask the average layman who Jesus was, and if they’re a more secular/liberal sort of person you’ll probably hear that he was a “great moral teacher.” Ironically, however, the one uniquely Christian moral principle he taught was this: But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate …
Jan 13 2012
Gospel Disproof #30: Tim Tebow
I wasn’t going to do another Gospel Disproof today, but I saw Ed Brayton’s post on how Worldnetdaily is now hawking “Tebow trash” (or as I prefer to call it, “Teboloney”), and it struck me that Tebow is a great Gospel Disproof. See, here’s the thing. Tim Tebow is obviously a big fan of Jesus. …
Jan 12 2012
Gospel Disproof #29: Negotiable guilt
One sure sign of the Gospel’s human and imperfect origins is its morality, and specifically its notion of negotiable guilt. By negotiable I don’t mean “we can work out a deal,” I mean negotiable in the financial sense of a deferred payment that exists independently of the bearer and that can be transferred from one …
Jan 10 2012
Gospel Disproof #28: Conditional salvation
The Christian Gospel has many flaws that betray its origins as a man-made scheme for manipulating people, and one of the more obvious examples is the idea of conditional salvation. People will work harder for something they might achieve than they will for something that’s either guaranteed or impossible, so psychologically it’s a clever tactic …
Jan 06 2012
Gospel Disproof #27: The disturbed (and disturbing) lover
I want to talk to the moms and dads out there for a moment, especially those parents who have an unmarried daughter in her late teens. Suppose she comes home one day and says, “Mom, Dad, I need to talk about my boyfriend problems.” There are two guys competing for her affections. One is just …
Dec 31 2011
Gospel Disproof #26: No excuses
Here’s an interesting thought experiment, especially for Christians. Imagine, for a moment, what the world would be like if Christianity were a myth. How would it be different? People would not suddenly become omniscient, would they? Of course not. Why would God’s failure to exist suddenly improve our mental abilities? A world in which God …
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