Alistar McGrath -- Atheist turned Christian

Richard Dawkins was on The Hour not too long ago. Now here is his opposition, Mr. Alistar McGrath, once an atheist, now a christian.

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[AegeanKing]

@BigD71889 No. That is not accurate. You have fallen victim to what modern fundementalists say. The historical FACT is, the earliest and most important Christian and Jewish theologians did not take Genesis literally. Important and revered Jewish theologians in the middle ages in the 12th century like RAMBAM did not read Genesis literally. In Christianity, the early Church Fathers in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries did not take it literally. People like Saint Augustine and Origen.

[AegeanKing]

@BigD71889 There have ALWAYS been a number of interpretations for Genesis. Not just one literal interpretation. This hyper-literalist reading of Genesis has only become popular in the last few hundred years. Look at what the earliest Christian theologians say and you will a number of different interpretations.

[AegeanKing]

@punksachoo What is your point? Books need to be interpreted. If the Bible was so black and white, study bible would not exist. Scholars would not have to write thousand page commentaries on a particular gospel. All books need proper interpretation. A book means whatever the authors meant it to mean. To understand that, you have to know their motivation for writing and their cultural circumstances. All of the theologians I mentioned were very devout believers.

[thirdLeg]

@benjaminfair1

Dumbass. It doesn't matter the date someone puts on something, things like carbon dating and other atrifacts do matter and cannot be forged. There is 0 evidence that jews were even in egypt. Do you have any peer reviewed archaelogical articles about your evidence?

[ivlfounder]

@richo61

You think you've hooked a fish?

LOL you've hooked an aircraft carrier.

[punksachoo]

@AegeanKing There is a difference between "theologian" and "believer". God will honour believers but there have been and are many "theologians" who don't have an ounce of belief in them whom God will not honour.

[punksachoo]

@SickkFlowEnt

That's brilliant. Glad to hear that. God bless you!

[punksachoo]

@benjaminfair1 I agree that respect of persons is of the greatest importance. However I have concluded that it's just not possible to have respect for the opinions of other people if they are totally opposite of your own.

[benjaminfair1]

@thirdLeg Jews did escape from Eqypt and the bible's accounts do align with archeological evidence. The only reason there is not more acceptance of this is that Egyptologists long ago dated certain artifacts and events incorrectly and have based the entire timeline on these. If you take the information from the Bible there are people and events that line up with them exactly, but since they do not jive with the Eqyptologists artificial timeline they say that the evidence doesn't exist.

[ThatBritishGenius]

So basically, he is a Christian because it gives him the self-fulfilling thought that he actually matters. I'm not going to argue with the truth, if I don't matter in the universe, so be it.

[benjaminfair1]

I think Alistar McGrath has it right, people must be respectful of others if they disagree. Being disrespectful of people that disagree with you does nothing to further the debate; in fact it just makes those people be offended. I would like to see all people be respectful when they engage others that disagree with them in conversation.

[richo61]

Little fish, little fish....

Not worth the effort.