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Now, as to this: Then it's [Christianity] a false religion.
Says you.
Was it authorized at Sinai? Yes? No?
The Incarnate Word of God says:
Just how do you know this? Because it's a claim of chrstianity and you identify with chrstianity for cultural or traditional reasons? What makes you think that chrstianity's claims are self-verifying?
Your arguments are really no different from those of a KJV-only Fundamentalist Protestant to whom the claims of (or about) the KJV are self-affirming and have no need of external evidence.
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. "
and
“Very truly I tell you,” Jesus answered, “before Abraham was born, I am!
And these claims are self-affirming? To make them is to prove them?
Hmmmm ...
Seems to me, I can either listen to God Himself, or listen to Random Internet Dude.
Easy choice.
Look . . . I know where you're coming from. But you must realize that this line of argumentation is beneath you. Chrstianity doesn't listen to G-d. It listens to a man who claimed to be G-d in whose name the Holy Torah was (G-d forbid!) abolished and replaced with a new one. Your utterly cavalier attitude towards the Revelation at Sinai simply makes no sense (unless you have excised it from your beliefs). There is no "new testament" in my Bible. There is most certainly an "old testament" in yours. Your ignoring it to merely parrot the claims of chrstianity as if they were self-evidently true is childish.
Now ... you could retort the same ... that you have a choice between "G_d" (sic) and Random Internet Dude ...
And you'd be right.
We can't both be correct, here. At least one of us is wrong theologically.
I'm convinced it's you.
You're "convinced?" I have no doubt that you believe it is I who am in error, but I do doubt that you are "convinced." How many chrstians have ever even considered the claims of their parent religion? Probably no more than you could enumerate on the fingers of one hand.
Chrstianity may cream paganism (which it indeed fulfills, adopting its calendar and holidays), but it's never been able to win an argument with Judaism. RaMBa"N wiped the floor with chrstians in medieval Spain.
It's one thing when two religions claiming two separate revelations claim to be true. It's quite another when one religion acknowledges the other and then adds to it. I doubt you've ever given the issue of whether this was called for very much thought.
Good gravy how one little anti-"halloween" thread has been seized on and diverted. I wonder if this is happening to Fundamentalist Protestant anti-"halloween" threads?
Does it matter?
Random Internet Dude clearly thinks so.
I think not.
Look . . . I know where you're coming from.
No, actually, you don't. And you're very presumptuous to claim that you do.
Chrstianity doesn't listen to G-d.
Wrong. And we don't have any superstition about spelling out the word "God", either.
There is no "new testament" in my Bible.
Well ... there's your problem, right there.
I do doubt that you are "convinced."
Your doubts are your problem.
Not mine.
RaMBa"N wiped the floor with chrstians in medieval Spain.
Whatever ... some folks are impressed with people's "performance" in "debates". I am not; indeed, I find that the "debate" may be the worst of all possible ways of determining truth.
I wonder if this is happening to Fundamentalist Protestant anti-"halloween" threads?
Fundamentalist Protestant threads don't babble about "Xtian" "pollution".
Beyond that, I generally agree with the Fundamentalist Protestants ... Halloween (as 'celebrated' in these United States today) has become creepy, vile, and perverse.