- Davies, Stevan
- Proponent of the Gospel of Thomas.
- Articles
- on the Gospel of Thomas Gospel
- Review of Jesus the Healer
- Articles
- DaVinci Code
- Our summary material here with a link to a detailed critique written in cooperation with Bob and Gretchen Passantino of Answers in Action.
- Dawkins, Richard
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- Articles
- Review of Climbing Mount Improbable [Off Site]
- Review of Unweaving the Rainbow [Off Site]
- A Blindfolded Watchmaker: The Arrival of the Fittest [Off Site]
- Critique of Dawkins by Christian philosopher Dallas Willard
- Articles
- Dazhdbog
- Alleged pagan copycat savior figure. See here.
- Dead Sea Scrolls
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- Articles
- Death Penalty
- Does the Bible support capital punishment?
- Deedat, Ahmed
- Muslim apologist. See responses here. [Off Site]
- Del Tondo, Douglas
- Anti-Paul demagogue. Response here.
- Detering, Hermann
- Radical critic who thinks all of Paul's letters are fakes. Comments here.
- Dialogue with Trypho
- Work of Justin Martyr offering his dialogue with a skeptical Jew.
- Diehl, Dennis
- Ex-pastor with a feature titled "Questions Pastors Hate". There is nothing new in this feature; it is merely items we have already answered (by link or directly) and a bit outside our scope (evolution/Noah's Ark).
Diehl's lack of scholarship is illustrated well by his saying of Joshua 10, I asked him how oceans would not slop out of their basins in such a scenario and drown the whole world? I asked him if humans would not be cast into space by such a sudden stop of the entire planet? If God can stop a planet from rotating, he can't do something about the resultant inertia?
He also asks the standard questions resolved here and here. A Ph.D. physical chemist answered of his questions, "Of course not! Didn't this guy bother to check with someone who knows physics?" His calculations are here, and anyone who wants to challenge them can take it up with him.
Diehl's lack of scholarship is also illustrated by his acceptance of the standard arguments about NT misuse of the OT (see here) and his not knowing that the question asked by the disciples in John 9 of the man born blind does not relate to sin "in a previous life" but rather to Jewish discussions over whether a child could sin in the womb.
Diehl asks, "So is it just me, or are these good questions to ask about the text and theology of the Bible?" Answer...it's just him. While pastors might only be marginally informed themselves, if Diehl wanted real answers he'd do some serious research in credible scholarly sources. He does not, and so he warrants no more than this entry as a reply.
It should also be noted that Diehl was once a member of the Worldwide Church of God, when it was still fully regarded as a cult, and is now a therapeutic masseur.
- Dionysus
- Greek god of wine, source of pagan copycat charges.
- Discipling
- Also called "shepherding" and used by some groups as a control mechanism. See comments here with how this is used by some "Christian" groups.
- "Divine Man" figure
- Or, theios aner. For relevant commemnts see this article. [Off Site]
- Divorce
- Doherty, Earl
- Christ-myther.
- Articles
- Introduction
- On four of the toughest issues Doherty fails to deal with adequately
- On the allegedly problematic silence of the NT Epistles
- Circular arguments used by Doherty
- On poorly supported secondary arguments
- On the patristic writings -- see also here [Off Site]
- Original summary reply to Doherty's work
- Doherty on the Book of Hebrews
- Comments on Doherty's first reply to the above essays
- Doherty on the Book of 1 John
- Ode to a Cow Eating Grass -- our tongue-in-cheek reply to use of the Solomonic Odes
- Refutation of list of 200 alleged "silences" about Jesus
- Response to Challenging the Verdict (a critique of Strobel's Case for Christ)
- Did Jesus Exist? -- hosted by James Hannam [Off Site]
- Articles
- Dolan, Chester
- Review of Holy Daze by Jeff Stueber
- Dowling, Levi
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- Articles
- Review by Edgar Goodspeed [Off Site]
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- Drews, Arthur
- Turn of the century Christ-myther.
- Articles
- Dumuzi
- Ancient Sumerian deity, also named Tammuz, sometimes alleged to have been an influence on Christianty. For a response, see here.
- Dunn, James D. G.
- Review of Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?
- Dyer, Wayne
- Popular self-help guru.
- Articles
- Review and analysis of 10 Secrets for Sucecss and Inner Peace
- Articles