Robert M. Price Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, he may well be correct that New Testament scholarship is more conservative than it once was. This has more than he admits to do with which denominations can afford to train the most students, hire more faculty, and send more members to the SBL.

  Robert M. Price

  Thinking, Doors, Indulge In

• Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

  Robert M. Price

  Healing, Mean, Biblical

• One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracles without believing that every reported miracle must in fact have happened.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Miracle, Religion

• Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that presupposed in the gospels that the latter must be dismissed as secondary embellishments, especially as 1 Corinthians predates the gospels.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Body, Resurrection

  "By This Time He Stinketh" by Robert M. Price, infidels.org. 1997.

• By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'

  Robert M. Price

  Mean, Religion, Want

• What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Stories, Narrative

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.75, Wildside Press LLC

• A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds miracles to be possible, one need not hold legends to be impossible! There are other factors, literary and historiographical ones, that might lead a critic to conclude that even though miracles can happen, it does not appear that in this or that case they did.

  Robert M. Price

  Simple, Miracle, Religion

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.116, Wildside Press LLC

• The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.

  Robert M. Price

  Burden Of Proof, Religion, Doubt

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.75, Wildside Press LLC

• If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

  Robert M. Price

  Two, Religion, Atheism

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.117, Wildside Press LLC

• Speculation is not knowledge.

  Robert M. Price

  Religion, Speculation

• I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

  Robert M. Price

  Believe, Religion, Trying

  Robert M. Price (2008). “Beyond Born Again: Toward Evangelical Maturity”, p.63, Wildside Press LLC

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