"How Did Jesus Find Disciples With Those Names In The Middle East?"
Sometimes, questions or arguments about the Christian faith that I find online make me ask, "Where in the world did that come from?" Sometimes the arguments that I see against Christianity are so bad that I am left scratching my head as to how someone could come up with that argument in the first place. Today, I ran across one such argument. I have run across it before, but I largely ignored it because I didn't think that too many people would give it their time or energy. Yet lately, I have seen it more and more often in both discussion groups and in comments on various posts. The issue that I am talking about is this: You would think that the average person would understand transliteration, but alas, this doesn't seem to be the case, especially when I see responses like this one: How this became something that has become prominent in some circles is beyond me. How others do not see the issues with this argument also perplex me. Let's look at a couple of those ...