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“What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.”

Quote by Robert M. Price

Book:Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

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Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

This book delves into the deeper aspects of spiritual growth and development within the Evangelical community, examining the stages of faith beyond the initial experience of being 'born again'. more

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Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price is an American writer known for his critical studies of religion and mythology. His work spans a variety of fields, including biblical studies, Christian theology, and literary criticism. more

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“A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.”

Source: Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity

“I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL.”

“Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.”

“One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.”

Believe May Facts Religion Happened Possibility Capable Miracle Believe In God

Author:Robert M. Price

“Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.”

Body Religion Latter Conception Resurrection Scholar Testament New Testament Clash Implied Corinthians Embellishment

Author:Robert M. Price

“By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'”

Ifs Want Mean Religion Appearance Luke Matthew Parentheses Corinthians

Author:Robert M. Price

“For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“If you get caught at some crucial point and somebody tells you that your doctrine doesn't make sense - you're ready for him. You tell him there's something above sense. That here he must not try to think, he must feel. He must believe. Suspend reason and you can play it deuces wild.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Believe Reason Play Religion Ready Caught Doctrine Make Sense Crucial Deuces

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“This god, this one word: I.”

Religion One Word Anthem

Book:Anthem (一個人的頌歌)

Source: Anthem (一個人的頌歌)

“There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.”

Reason Philosophy Religion Theory Authority Doctrine Submission

Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution