Did you see the headline on the Fox News website?:“Harvard professor unveils a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she says quotes Jesus referring to having a wife…”
Many are making a big deal about this, and something of the history of the Gnostic influence of the first few centuries after Christ, simply yawn and wonder at the utter absurdity and inconsistency of this latest attack on the truth claims of the Christian faith. In the way of response, my friend, New Testament scholar, Dr. James White wrote the following:
Remember the Gospel of Judas a few years ago? Yeah, most people don’t. It was one of the last “Look, the Gnostics were a bunch of heretics, let’s call them Christians and say Christianity is silly” waves that was sponsored by a major institution with hundreds of thousands of dollars to burn in the never ending campaign to attack the Christian faith. Well, looks like the 2012 version has arrived courtesy of the Queen of Gnostic Looniness, Karen King.
Karen King makes her money writing books attacking Christianity based upon digging up the same gnostic myths rejected and refuted long, long ago. Just do a quick look on her name on Amazon. Some of her real winners include The Gospel of Mary Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (2003), What is Gnosticism? (2005), and Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (2007) co-authored with the other Queen of Gnostic silliness, Elaine Pagels. As you can see, she makes her shoe fund money digging the gnostics out of their graves and propping up their inane stories. But, that’s what the media craves, and so, here we go again. Get ready, and be prepared to explain that gnostics were not Christians, for anyone who thinks the God of Abraham was an evil deity or that Jesus did not have a physical body is not, was not, and never will be, a Christian. Period. Just a heads up.
Continuing on, in an article today entitled “A Note to the Secular World: Do Your History” Dr. White writes: Continue reading
The first ever question in the Universe was uttered by the crafty serpent to Adam’s wife Eve in the Garden of Eden, why would he ever need to change what is obviously a winning tactic? He knows that unless doubt is countered, it will lead to skepticism, and in due course, outright unbelief.
Here’s an idea: A long long time ago there was something really, really, really small. It was so small that.. well, it was smaller than small could almost possibly be – a single unit of matter… small, reaaaaalllllyy small, get it?? Yeah, small!!
Let’s ask ourselves, “what is the chance that if we flip this coin, it will come up either heads or tails?”