Re: Bad Review
Delphi wrote:One bad review and you think the book is discredited? Come, how many times have you been to the movies and seen something that you liked which received at least one poor review? A review is just a personal opinion. Read the book and make up your own mind.
The review told me all I needed to know since I have read most of the articles the book contains.
The compilers perhaps want you to read it because they think that the average church member is not informed enough to know how off base they are, but there are many who are.
And I am not one of those who is so uninformed I would take this book seriously.
The guy who wrote the review is obviously biased towards the Christian religion. Anything he disagrees with, he states has been discredited, without providing evidence. Mithraism, for example. It is obvious that Christianity has borrowed from Mithraism, the similarities are too striking not to be real. Yet the guy who wrote the review ignores this fact.
To some it is obvious that Christianity borrowed from the Egyptian myth concerning Isis and Osiris, to others it is not. To some it is obvious the cross is a pagan symbol incorporated into Christianity. Mithraism contains some beliefs found in Egyptian myths, and other local religions. I know them all and have studied them all and still believe the Bible is true.
Try finding a review from a secular source and see what it says. Try reading an objective opinion written by someone who does not have a vested interest in disputing the contents of the book.
As Ted Hendleberg said, "The only people who fear non-Christian literature are Christians.
You see this book as unbiased, sorry I don't. The very title shows the bias of the editor. As to truth, whose truth? The editor's and the people whose essays he hand picked!