Excelllent post! Thank you for your response! I firmly believe that Jesus is the Christ. He is my Savior, and He dwells within me.
Your argument for absolute truth is great and very clear.
As I explained in another post. . . . I have asked these questions for this assignment in hopes of hearing the “other side of the story.” I am a Christian, but I am willing to listen to the “other side” (i.e. an atheist or skeptic) and am really needing to hear that for my paper. I am really thankful that Christians are taking such a firm stand for what they believe. I am beginning to wonder if the atheists and skeptics reading this are not willing to stand for what they ‘believe.’
One of the faults of Christian doctrine has been the following of Platonic models by early patristics in distorting the gospel doctrines given by Christ to his Apostles (including Paul), which has resulted in Roman and Reformers' catholicism, a deep flaw in the transmission of anti-Nicene thought.
Why don't you do a paper on the wedding of Platonism with Scriptural doctrine, and see how it has diluted the "gospel" as usually preached today?
You might find that a very interesting and fruitful ground of study.