Nigeria emerges as third most popular user of gay dating app Grindr. No matter what social issue we identify, we must completely trust the gospel to meet that need. Post by dewitness » Sat Oct 12, 2013 12:23 am stephan … He deluded goatherds and shepherds into the belief that there was one God - whom they called the Highest, or Adonai, or the Heavenly, or Sabaoth, or whatever names they please to give to this world - and there their knowledge ceased. var date=time.getDate(); Celsus goes on to say: "We must not disobey the ancient writer [Homer], who said long ago, 'Let one be king, whom the son of crafty Saturn appointed ;'" and adds: "If you set aside this maxim, you will deservedly suffer for it at the hands of the king. However, Romans knew they were myths but Christians had the audacity to expect us to believe that their myths are true. The term "counterculture" is widely attributed to cultural theorist Theodore Roszak. Top. And Jesus isn’t calling us to reform the establishment… he’s calling us to counter it with a new way. This was therefore how the church chose to respond to Celsus. After these points Celsus quotes some objections against the doctrine of Jesus, made by a very few individuals who are considered Christians, not of the more intelligent, as he supposes, but of the more ignorant class, and asserts that "the following are the rules laid down by them. But then again this hobby gets in the way of my following popular culture. Be bold, friends. Celsus was a polemicist, not unlike today’s “New Atheists” (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, [the late] Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett) who offer “intellectual criticism” to counter the Christian message through books, debates, talk-show appearances and the like. But if he come down among men, he must undergo a change, and a change from good to evil, from virtue to vice, from happiness to misery, and from best to worst. Learn more. Cambridge/LDN. Finally, both Celsus (VI 18) and Justin (Apol. Other people can do similar tricks, "so what exactly entitles Jesus thereafter is a mishmash of different traditions." I pass by those who explain away the Mosaic records by plausible allegorising. Language: english. Peter Kirby