That is similar to what Christians say about Christianity (and maybe what Muslims say about Islam).
The Jews are the only people who believe what they do because G-d personally told them to. Everyone else believes in everything (including G-d Himself) because their "bible" or their church tell them to.
And how do you know that? Where you there? Did you see or hear the event yourself? Or did you read it in some "bible"?
Hundreds of years passed from the time these things were supposed to have happened until they were put into writing, and hundreds more years until they Scriptures took their final form. That is enough mediation -- enough distance between you and whatever you want to call G_d -- for any religion.
I thought you and I had agreed to leave each other alone?
I don't remember that. I may have agreed that there was no point in continuing a particular discussion, yet you go on posting your ... stuff. If you stopped, it would be a lot easier to ignore you.
I get it. You are looking for some rock-solid certain foundation for your beliefs from which you can attack everyone else's. Unfortunately you don't have it. You are as distant from the ultimate source as those you attack, and your belief is as much based on belief or faith as anyone else's. Maybe that's what scares you. That doesn't mean you and your beliefs are worse than anyone else's. But they aren't better, either.
The Jews are the only people who believe what they do because G-d personally told them to. Everyone else believes in everything (including G-d Himself) because their "bible" or their church tell them to.
And how do you know that? Where you there? Did you see or hear the event yourself? Or did you read it in some "bible"?
I know it because the claim of Revelation at Sinai is the one and only self-vindicating claim in all of history. Why has no one else even made a claim of direct public national revelation? They haven't because they can't. The Jews do because they were there.
If you take a look earlier on this thread you will note jjotto's [courtesy ping] pointing out that the Jews were studying Torah under Moses for forty years before the first scrolls were written down. The chain of transmission from G-d to Moses down through the millenia to this very day is an iron fact of history.
I thought you and I had agreed to leave each other alone?
I don't remember that. I may have agreed that there was no point in continuing a particular discussion, yet you go on posting your ... stuff. If you stopped, it would be a lot easier to ignore you.
I remember it very well, but apparently you have decided to renege. Very well. Unfortunately, FR doesn't have an "ignore" feature.
If you find me so much more infuriating than anyone else on this forum, I invite you to just avoid all my posts from now on. I did not begin this current conversation; you did. Just pay no attention to my "nonsense" and your blood pressure will go down. I make it a rule not to initiate conversations with you. Surely you can do the same.