Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 0:50:01 GMT
The only rule is that you have to have actually read the books. Go!
1. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus - Gary Habermas & Michael Licona - Examines the veracity of the Resurrection using only the sources that even the most critical scholars would accept.
2. The Jesus Legend - Paul Eddy & Gregory Boyd - Examines the claims that the Gospels are either mostly legendary or are entirely fictitious.
3. Satan & the Problem of Evil - Gregory Boyd - As the title would suggest, this book thoroughly examines the problem of evil, the nature of free will, and the reason why God would create the world as he did.
|
|
|
|
Post by goz on Jun 27, 2018 1:03:41 GMT
The only rule is that you have to have actually read the books. Go! 1. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus - Gary Habermas & Michael Licona - Examines the veracity of the Resurrection using only the sources that even the most critical scholars would accept. 2. The Jesus Legend - Paul Eddy & Gregory Boyd - Examines the claims that the Gospels are either mostly legendary or are entirely fictitious. 3. Satan & the Problem of Evil - Gregory Boyd - As the title would suggest, this book thoroughly examines the problem of evil, the nature of free will, and the reason why God would create the world as he did. I will have to think about this, however the very first book that came to mind is 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche. Wonderful. Most books with religious themes bore me because they are so partisan and predictable. Also anything by the Dalai Lama is worth a read and another book 'The Best Buddhist Writing 2006 - edited by Melvin McLeod. It is obvious that I like the Buddhist philosophies to read because they are so general and spiritual, without a lot of the claptrap associated with the other religions and even atheist writings which just tend to bag religion. I can do that for myself. |
|
|
|
Post by lowtacks86 on Jun 27, 2018 1:08:25 GMT
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Wise Blood
Siddartha
|
|
|
|
Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jun 27, 2018 1:21:37 GMT
God is not great: How religion poisons everything Christopher Hitchens
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
Copied from Amazon review. And I have read all three.
|
|
|
|
Post by NJtoTX on Jun 27, 2018 2:37:17 GMT
The God Delusion
|
|
|
|
Post by Aj_June on Jun 27, 2018 4:19:39 GMT
Did you really enjoy this book? |
|
|
|
Post by Aj_June on Jun 27, 2018 4:45:35 GMT
Crime and Punishment - The ending of this great book is based on Christian ideas of redemption.
|
|
|
|
Post by Arlon10 on Jun 27, 2018 6:09:37 GMT
1 The Bible
2 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
3 Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
I enjoy quite much Indian and Chinese philosophy, but there is no single, comprehensive book that stands out. The Upanishads and the Tao Te Ching deserve their fame. Alan Watts is a better writer on Zen Buddhism than his videos might indicate. His book The Way of Zen covers it rather well.
|
|
|
|
Post by clusium on Jun 28, 2018 0:00:18 GMT
The only rule is that you have to have actually read the books. Go! 1. The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus - Gary Habermas & Michael Licona - Examines the veracity of the Resurrection using only the sources that even the most critical scholars would accept. 2. The Jesus Legend - Paul Eddy & Gregory Boyd - Examines the claims that the Gospels are either mostly legendary or are entirely fictitious. 3. Satan & the Problem of Evil - Gregory Boyd - As the title would suggest, this book thoroughly examines the problem of evil, the nature of free will, and the reason why God would create the world as he did. , by Thomas Kempis, The Secret of the Rosary, by St. Louis deMontford, The Passion Of Jesus, and It's Hidden Meaning, by Rev. James Groenings, S. J. Confessions of a Sinner, by St. Augustine, The Fall of Jerusalem, by Flavius Josephus. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
@Deleted
Posts: 0
Likes:
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2018 0:16:15 GMT
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
|
|
