Comments on Ambassador Watch: Dr. Bob Bites Back

Gosh, I'd suggest Dr. Bob just read the Bible for ...

2006-06-27T12:00:00.000+12:00

Gosh, I'd suggest Dr. Bob just read the Bible for what it says drop the blinders. As some of the boys have noted...""There is no prophecy in the OT foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ. There is not one word in the OT referring to him in any way--not one word. The only way to prove this is to take your Bible, and wherever you find these words; "That it might be fulfilled" and "which was spoken" turn to the OT and find what was written, and you will see that it had not the slightest possible reference to the thing recounted in the NT--not the slightest."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." -- Isaac Asimov

"Whoever will take the trouble to read attentively, will find in all those passages where the OT is cited, only an obvious abuse of words, and the seal of falsehood on almost every page." -- Voltaire

If Bob really wants to read up on church history h...

2006-06-05T17:55:00.000+12:00

If Bob really wants to read up on church history he should read The Story of Christianity (2 Vols) by Justo L. Gonzalez, A History of Christian Thought (3 Vols) also by Gonzalez, and Documents of the Christian Church edited by Bettenson and Maunder. When a person reads real church history rather than COG revisionist church hysteria, you quickly see how off the wall Armstrongism is in it's beliefs in the history of the church.

When I am marking papers and see that students ha...

2006-06-04T15:00:00.000+12:00

When I am marking papers and see that students have cited only these older public domain commentaries and references, I know that they did not bother to make a trip to the library, and their papers get critiqued accordingly. I agree that the scholarship here lacks any type of systematic bibliographic referencing, and the essays I did look at more closely contained some errors and omissions--one example in particular was the essay on the use of the cross in early Christianity--no mention of earlier sources who mention the use of the cross, nor any discussion of the Jewish origins of the custom of making the sign of the cross...Only one of many examples I could point to. Good for you, Gavin, for making a case for sound and honest scholarship, something that seems lacking among COG writings.

It should be pointed out that Dugger and Dodd foll...

2006-06-04T14:57:00.000+12:00

It should be pointed out that Dugger and Dodd followed the fine tradition of plagiarism, mostly from Ellen G. White. Apparently, Ellen G. White also plagiarized.