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Originally Posted by OBW
And while I am a rather conservative Christian with no major changes in my thinking about things in the past number of years, I believe that there are things that we accept as simply right that may not necessarily be so. Therefore entertaining an alternative theory is a way to either establish that what you already thought is more likely correct, or that something else may actually be correct..
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Without mentioning the unmentionable locked dungeon, I agree alternative views can get wild. And aron and I prolly produce the most far out alternative views ... me being the worse.
Here's what I think is the big problem with entertaining alternative theories and views: An example is the internet. It's packed full of alternative theories and views.
I'll allow Josh McDowell to explain it:
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“Now here is the problem,” said McDowell, “going all the way back, when Al Gore invented the Internet [he said jokingly], I made the statement off and on for 10-11 years that the abundance of knowledge, the abundance of information, will not lead to certainty; it will lead to pervasive skepticism. And, folks, that’s exactly what has happened. It’s like this. How do you really know, there is so much out there… This abundance [of information] has led to skepticism. And then the Internet has leveled the playing field [giving equal access to skeptics].”
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Apologist Josh McDowell: Internet the Greatest Threat to Christians
http://www.christianpost.com/news/in...ll-says-52382/