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To: New Jersey Realist
All religion is based on faith and NEVER fact. You are entitled to your views and they are no better or worse than the views of any other person of faith (or no faith).

Let's start with this last claim first -- that given views "are no better or worse than the views of any other person of faith (or no faith)."

Well, if that's "so," why should we take that and run with that?

If all views are somehow the "same," then you've just admitted that 100% of your claims with this post aren't anything "special." Why should ANYBODY take what you say as worth anything if it's the same as Hitler's religious beliefs that Jews were inferior?

You've committed the fatal error of "equivalency." -- That all views are somehow "equal." If that was true, the "religious" views uttered by Satan would be no worse than what Jesus taught!

Bottom-line...you've admitted your post is "no better" than anything I've written...and if it's "no better" in reflecting "truth," why would anybody want to stop at your doorstep to "acquire" truth?

All religion is based on faith and NEVER fact.

Is that a "fact?"

More self-refutation...and hilariously so. You present that statement as if it was "factual," yet you just told us that ALL religious statements -- including this 9-word statement you made -- is "based on faith."

If you're telling us something "factual," then you've just admitted that the statement "All religion is based on faith and never fact" has an "exception" when it comes to YOUR religious conclusions. (A self-refutation)

If you're telling us something that resides in your "faith" alone, why should we believe it? You started off asking me, "I don’t know what authority you believe..."...Well, by Whose authority is this statement of "All religion is based upon faith and not fact" actually so?

Did that originate with you, or are you quoting somebody?

The apostle Paul concluded in 1 Corinthians 15 that if Jesus didn't (factually) rise from the dead, then Christianity as a faith is EMPTY. If the tomb wasn't empty because of Jesus rising, then a person's Christian faith IS empty.

Jesus appeared to about 500 witnesses post-resurrection. Witnesses have sent people to their death via their testimonies before judge & jury. Eyewitnesses report "facts."

You imply every eyewitness testimony is just "blind faith." Really? Is our criminal justice system based 100% upon "blind faith?"

2,615 posted on 08/13/2012 11:34:48 AM PDT by Colofornian (Why don't you 'birthers' ask Mitt about his 'spirit-birth' on planet near Kolob? Hypocrisy @ work?)
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To: Colofornian

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2,618 posted on 08/13/2012 11:40:10 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ("I'm comfortable with a Romney win." - Pres. Jimmy Carter)
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To: Colofornian
Did that originate with you, or are you quoting somebody?

It's at the intellectual level of a 15 year old trolling skeptic sites and thinking he's made a monumental discovery about life.
2,619 posted on 08/13/2012 11:45:05 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: Colofornian

Eph 2:8-9. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

Learn your lesson.


2,730 posted on 08/13/2012 1:56:04 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)
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