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Originally Posted by veggihatetank
Dr Hugh Ross came to be a born-again christian just by logic without any fear involved.
by Dr. Hugh Ross
My Search for Truth
The obvious next step was to turn to the "holy" books themselves. If God the Creator had spoken through any of these books (and I thought He probably had not) his authorship would be obvious: the communication would be perfectly true. I reasoned that if men invent a religion, their teachings will reflect human error. But, if the Creator communicates, His message will be error free and just as consistent as the facts of nature. So, I used the facts of history and science to test each of the "holy" books.
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For all his claims to 'truth' and 'logic', this argument is plain goofy. He obviously did not turn to the 'holy books' themselves. He turned to a very small subset. Why didn't he read the Qur'an, or the Analects, or the Laws of Manu, or the Tao Te Ching, or the Book of Mormon, or the Diamond Sutra? He's doing religious philosophy the way an astronomer would do astronomy if he believed that only Ptolemy was authoritative. He should stick to science.