Alward a Christian Troll?

Farrell Till jftill@midwest.net
Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:08:39 -0800 (00909839319, 2.2.32.19981031070839.0088ab9c@midwest.net) 

At 02:14 PM 10/30/98 -0800, Bryce Anderson wrote:

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>BRYCE

>     Joe, I'll do you a favor and work under the (possibly erroneous)

>assumption that you are sincere about this, and not just a Christian

>troll.  I really don't believe you're ready to undertake such an

>endeavor yet.  You haven't shown the ability to distinguish between

>the "best" defenses and irrelevant quibbles.  You don't seem to

>understand (in spite of umpteen repetitions) why your new "one minute

>theory" is failing (besides the obvious fact that the Egyptians

>wouldn't have had time to GET to the Nile, much less dig around its

>banks).  I think you'd be doing yourself a favor by being more open to

>advice. 

>

>     Once more, there are no contextual clues to imply that there is

>any missing information.  

>


TILL
Were it not for Alward's website, which I have looked at briefly, I too
would be convinced that he is simply a Christian troll bent on diverting
attention to ridiculous tangents.  However, the longer he stays on the list,
the more I wonder if his website may be only a ruse intended to give
credibility to his claim that he is an atheist.  After all, his
how-it-could-have-been scenarios are as ridiculous as any ever offered by
biblicists, and his website is so shallow and amateurish that he may have
set it up to try to make Christians who happen onto it believe that these
articles are typical of the kind of objections that skeptics raise about
biblical inerrancy.

On the chance that I have misjudged Alward's motives, I'm taking the time to
post a series of articles about the concept of verbal inspiration and the
biblical inerrancy doctrine that it gave rise to.  After that, I promise
that I will be finished with Alward if he continues to post the kind of
nonsense that has characterized his tenure on this list.  The time that I
spend on this series of postings won't be wasted, because they can be saved
to repost the next time a Bible believer comes onto the list who doesn't
understand the verbal-inspiration view of the Bible and the inerrancy
doctrine that it spawned.  We have had them before, and we will have them
again.  There are a couple of them on Adnan's NG right now.



Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net