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To: Forest Keeper; MarkBsnr; stfassisi; irishtenor; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; wmfights; Cvengr; ...
Then objectively, you see nothing superior about Christianity over any other claimed faith or religion

No, to the contrary.  Only Christians can relate to God in a uniquely personal manner through Jesus Christ.

Again, as warned, that's what you get when you reject the truth and historicity of scriptures

It is? What does historicity have to do with loving your neighbor as yourself? What God is telling us is not a historical narrative, but a moral one which is current yesterday, today and tomorrow, and equally applicable to everyone.

6,763 posted on 07/31/2008 1:16:08 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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FK: Then objectively, you see nothing superior about Christianity over any other claimed faith or religion.

No, to the contrary. Only Christians can relate to God in a uniquely personal manner through Jesus Christ.

But based on your prior statements, there is NO WAY you can call that objective. You CLAIM some sort of relationship with the Christ you believe in. But that's just your claim. You can't back it up. So again, you can't objectively claim your faith is any more true than that of a terrorist.

FK: Again, as warned, that's what you get when you reject the truth and historicity of scriptures.

It is? What does historicity have to do with loving your neighbor as yourself?

HA! PLENTY. :) You personally like the idea of treating your neighbor as yourself, so you personally have decided that those verses are accurate in portraying what Jesus actually taught. However, with some of Jesus' other teachings that you DON'T like, such as in Matt. 4:4, you then turn to claim that Jesus never said that, and that Matthew lied, etc. That's all historicity. You have fashioned the Jesus you like and rejected everything else that you don't like. Faith a la carte. That's what I'm warning against.

6,806 posted on 08/01/2008 5:37:01 PM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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