Well for one, it could hurt their career -- see the movie "Expelled" with Ben Stein and see how some people claim there careers were hurt when they talked of or wrote papers about Intelligent Design.
I don't want to brag, but I ****in'
called it!
Also; the expelled nonsense has been pretty well
exposed for the lies it is (obviously, you always have the option to do as Ben Stein and start with your hypothesis and only accept for the facts that do support it, after all that's how you do all your Biblical scholarship).
Two, most legal cases don't have anything to do with 2000 year old history.
Clearly, but that didn't stop Greenleaf, did it..
And correct me if I"m wrong but I thought Greenleaf was simply discussing the authors and evidence of the New Testament and wasn't using it as an example for anything.
You are wrong but correcting you seems about impossible.
Greenleaf was discussion why we should trust the gospels authors but it is based on his subjective (and more than a little biased) understanding of their personalities as transmitted by the Christian tradition.
He never actually look at other evidences, he never stop to consider that the tradition could be flawed and he certainly never even stop and think that the accounts are so very superficial. The subject of the gospels is not the apostles personality and it takes a lot of projection to think you can understand the character of this alleged historical figures...
Well apologist Ralph Muncaster's book is 605 pages long. And Norman Geisler's is 420 pages. There is still a lot of stuff I could bring in if I ever get the time.
I'll read the whole yellow pages. Clearly, that's where the truth lies...
And if you really want get into some deep material read Norman Geilser's Four Volume series "Systematic Theology". Volume 1 of that series is probably the best of the four, although I have just skimmed the other three.
Heh, considering you can't be bothered to read the article about Greenleaf you linked to, I'd be surprised if you did even that...
