I have never seen the level of arguing among religions like I’ve seen on FR...and most is started by the Catholics! It go told a looooong time ago!
“I have never seen the level of arguing among religions like I’ve seen on FR”
How is one to know what the “one true path” is, when there are so many to choose from, and so many people that you’d rather not travel with?
I'm not Catholic...if you were to read consecutive chapters like chpt 17, 18 & 19 in the book of Acts, you'd see the first place the apostle Paul would head upon entering a new community, he'd go to the synagogue ... where he would discuss, debate, argue, refute the Jewish believers there. Then Apollos joined in & did likewise with the Jews. None of these descriptions by Luke in Acts is frowned upon -- as if what Paul or Apollos was doing was negative.
How is one to know what the “one true path” is, when there are so many to choose from, and so many people that you’d rather not travel with? [RFEngineer]
Well...
...#1 ...the thief on the cross to Jesus' side wasn't necessarily who'd ya want as a traveling companion -- if you wanted all your possessions at the end of your destination together.
...#2 ...And Zachaeus the tax collector would be a good modern-day equivalent to a Democratic socialist stealing from you to keep some for himself & give the rest to some "at-large bureaucratic budget pool." We probably wouldn't choose his path, either, if we saw him headin' down a certain pathway.
But that's just it. The cross is for sinners. We're sinners; not lds "gods-in-embryo" (how Lds "prophets" describe Mormons). We're in need of the Great Physician; Jesus said he didn't come to call those who say they have no need of a physician. And if you're a "god-in-embryo" or a future "god," I'd say you're in a different category than either me, the thief on the cross, or Zaccheus the tax collector.