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The commie prof promulgates the preeminence of the Gospel of Thomas

Commie professorWell, the commie prof is at it again.  Christian called me after class today to tells us their professor had told them that all the other gospels were based on the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas that is dated from around 150 A.D.  Many years after virtually all the gospels.  Only fringe scholars of the likes of Elaine Pagels and Marcus Borg hold to such a theory and it has been thoroughly debunked since it was popularized by the radical Jesus Seminar in the 1990’s.  Here is a link to an article by Craig Blomberg, a reputable New Testament scholar, that puts it all in context.  Here is a good lay level discussion of the topic by Tim Keller.

After that, our commie went on to say that their was too much time between when the events happened to when it was written down.  Christian told him that people who were alive when the events happened were also alive when the gospels were written down and that, in the case of John, there is an eyewitness account.  The prof’s response was to ask Christian if he could remember what he was doing seven years ago and then change the subject.  This is too pathetic even to take the time to post the links that refute this goofiness.  I wonder what he thinks we know about the life of Julius Caeser.

Update:  In the meantime, Kelly sends the following text message:

Hey Dad, the professor is crazy… he brought up the Gospel of Thomas which is like directly contradicted in my New Testament textbook, said that Cain and Abel were possibly homosexual and when Christian argued that the Gospels came from direct sources to Jesus and not from inaccurate oral traditions, he countered with “Well, do you remember what you were doing seven years ago?”

Update II: The kids walked out of their commie prof class and into their New Testament class.  The N.T. professor showed the Craig-Ehrman debate where Craig (to be very gracious) demonstrates that Bart Ehrman is either dishonest or not a serious scholar or both.  The title of the debate is “Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?”  You can see the debate on YouTube here.

Hmm… Conspriacy anyone?

Rember the EuroStudent Hipster in Kelly’s Science Fiction class?  Remember the commie, pro-drug, 1960’s throwback from Christian’s and Kelly’s and English Composition class?  The day the commie spent the entire “writing” class making inane, irrational arguments about the existence of God (e.g. You cannot use the fact of object moral values as an argument for the existence of God because that is in the category of ethics, not religion.  Jesus could not have been God because God is supposedly infinite and, as a human, Jesus had to be finite.).  Well, the two of them were seen talking earnestly together on campus.  Hmm…

Kelly and Christian get published in WTCC Voice

Day 66 of 1000

Kelly signed up to write an article earlier this semester for the Wake Technical Community College Voice student newspaper.  They went Since then, she has written a second article for this paper and an article for The College Fix, a national college news website.  Yesterday, she got her second assignment from The College Fix, so she is getting lots of writing opportunities now.  For the article below, Kelly wrote about futurist Rick Smyre‘s of Communities of the Future and his visit to WTCC.  Christian took his camera and got some great shots of the event, so he got a byline, too.

U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, visits Wake Techincal Community College

Day 64 of 1000

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education, will visit Christian’s and Kelly’s school this week for an invitation only town hall.  It is amazing how many dignitaries from the White House, including President Obama himself, have visited Raleigh over the last little while.  It is also amazing how some categories of people are unwelcome at these “non-political” events.  They even seem to be picking up the pace with more visits scheduled all the time.  Renee Ellmers visited Wake Tech last week.  She is the U.S. Representative from the district just south of us who took on Bob Etheridge, the guy who got caught on video grabbing and choking someone who was asking him about his support of Obama’s initiatives.  It is amazing that she walked the campus with the school President and made herself available to everyone.

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