In this era of escalating deconversions, exvangelicals, and the “Dones” (with church), Ehrman is a major instrument in countless readers’ downward spiritual trajectory.
Steefen
That is spiritually criminal, if true.
Randy
Ehrman seeks to build credibility by sharing his testimony of conversion to unbelief. The personal testimony has been used by faith-affirmers to reach the lost. Now it has become a tool of faith-deniers to reach the found.
Steefen
It is important that people aspire and commit to an upward trajectory, to a high way, to being a good citizen, not a criminal, to be helpful not harmful.
As a historical accuracy of the Bible investigator who has concluded Jesus is a composite character of historical fiction who found his mission so pleasing to God in the beginning but later was led to an awareness of his delusion of God’s pleasure and support. God, the owner of the Holy Land Vineyard, sent key representatives to their deaths. Jesus’ “testimony” was a delusion of upward spiritual trajectory. His gospel could not prevent the Tribulation of the Jewish uprising against Rome (the Jewish Revolt) and the Jewish Civil War (66-70/73 CE), the Kitos War (115–117 CE), and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE).
Can Christianity Stop the End of Humanity / Transhumanism? It did not stop the earlier Apocalypse of the Tribulation of the destruction of the Jewish Temple, etc.
First, I cannot fight the Wall Street Journal or the content of this article.
Second, do we agree that we want to resist this reality presented in the WSJ article?
Just because I was not paying attention/tracking this, some people are. I am late to this. A lot happens outside what one is watching/tracking. But the God of Christianity is watching over us, really? This has advanced to the point that the WSJ is reporting this.
We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision.
They are representatives of abstract forces who have reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of past.
There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers.
The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident. Inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.
—William S. Burroughs, “No More Stalins, No More Hitlers,
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