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Originally Posted by Igzy
I say let the opinions fly. Let the field be leveled. It's up to each of us to vett the ideas we encounter and pass judgment on then. If you abscond that responsibility then having someone spoon-feed you is not going to help and might produce a false sense of security.
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Josh McDowell is funny. In the referenced article he says the internet is the biggest threat to Christianity. But in looking into a claim that the earliest manuscript of the gospel of Mark has been found, I watched a video by McDowell, who claims to have found it and own it ; a supposed manuscript dating, he claims, to the 1st c. - just fifty yrs from the autograph.
In this speaking he's at a podium working from his iPad. He's speaking to an audience, sometimes specifically to young people, about the Bible, and he boldly praises his iPad, saying, "Thank you Jesus," while gesturing honorably at his iPad.
So while claiming the internet is dangerous, he sells the iPad to his audience, even speaking specifically to young girls.
In the end, isn't he just confusing us, by overloading us with information, to the point of making us skeptical? Isn't he guilty of doing the same thing he claims the internet is doing?
McDowell is funny, brilliant, and widely and deeply informed. That's obvious. He's also an exceptional speaker. For a guy with no real credentials, he's become quite a phenomenal success, as an evangelical apologist.
Apparently, like what Dr. Bart Ehrman is to New Testament scholarship, Josh McDowell is to Evangelical scholarship ; where credentials don't matter, just as long as Evangelical orthodoxy is taught and supported. And Josh stands out as doing just that.