I am curious what Price has written (I’ve also been told that Richard wrote a response to the book). I’ll check into it once I’ve finished reading it for myself (which will probably include the occasional commentary on what Strobel is missing/ignoring, etc).

And yeah…holding pretty much told me that he thinks he’s a soldier of Christ, or somesuch, and is therefore justified in behaving like a petulant child. I probably mentioned something about “turn the other cheek,” and I know–as a subtle hint–that I posted Galatians 5:22-23 as my signature on that board. He thinks it doesn’t apply to him, of course.

And for the record, I agree. You can tell a Christian by how closely they live according to what they say they believe. By that rule, he is no Christian.

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Oh, and J. P. Holding jpholding believes that his callous insulting replies are a form of divinely sanctioned “riposte.” He thinks he’s heard it all. And in his mind’s eye I’m sure he has. He knows the Bible is crystal clear, at least his interpretations of it, compared with those of rival inerrantists, etc.

Also, after you’ve read and analyzed Strobel for yourself, I think you’ll enjoy Robert M. Price’s take on the book, The Case Against the Case for Christ.

I am also irked that only freethinkers have composed point by point rebuttals to works of Christian apologetics like Strobel’s. No moderate or liberal Christians take such inerrantist works seriously enough to do so. Of course moderates and liberals already “know” how divinely inspired the Bible is, cover to cover, without having to prove it, they just “know.”