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  1. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    If it were Church teachings that he got that from (I say if because I don't know) then how would that invalidate his statement? Circular reasoning is not always fallacious.
  2. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    And for all those who didn't see the video I posted, here it is again. This is on violence in the Bible, by Bishop Robert Barron. Enjoy!
  3. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Absolutely correct! Those are excellent verses. :)
  4. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    I have returned to give this piece of information to those who doubt that Jesus ever claimed to be God: The New Testament is replete with direct and indirect claims of Christ's divinity. Perhaps the most famous is the beginning of the Gospel of John: "In the beginning was the word and the word...
  5. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Please, I don't want to start an argument, but that's ridiculous. I myself as a Christian don't even think that.
  6. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Wow, thanks so much man! I really appreciate all the encouragement. I'll take your advice to heart. May God bless you! :)
  7. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    I'm sick? Ok...don't know where you get that from. I don't support pedophiles, I support normal loving priests. Thats quite the spiteful insult. I guess you ARE saying that ALL people automatically become pedophilic when they are ordained. Once again, good logic. Not one good priest, thats quite...
  8. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Wow, I guess all priests are guilty of the sex abuse scandals huh? Good logic there. Man, if only there wasn't ONE who wasn't a sick *******. How unfortunate.
  9. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Realize this though, it wasn't Christianity that you defeated, it was my ability to represent it. I was simply not prepared. I have, in fact, won MANY arguments in the past. I will have all of these comments looked over by a Priest and WILL get back to all of you. This is a tactical retreat, not...
  10. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Welp, I'm officially leaving this thread, thanks to the complaints of many people. Most if not all have either completely misunderstood or misrepresented my arguments and reasons to believe. This is unfortunately a fruitless task - so far as I can tell anyway. So, goodbye (for now) everyone. I...
  11. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    And so long as there is no evidence against my position in terms of history, I have no reason to doubt it. Would you allow yourself to die, by going into enemy territory to preach a religiously blasphemous message to the people, for a false belief? I assume not. The very reason they did that...
  12. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Wow, literally asking me to commit suicide? That's pretty harsh. I don't remember the apostles doing that. What I remember them doing, is allowing them selves to BE killed out of love for Christ. Willingly going through trial and tribulation. So both your point and request for an end to my life...
  13. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    I'm genuinely curious, you say that you have a relationship with God; what type of belief do you adhere to specifically? I'm officially but temporarily conceding, as I know there are more out there who could do a better job than me, I may just be more damaging to my faith than helpful. But that...
  14. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Well Charlie Brown, I can add two things. Firstly, you would need to present historical counter evidence in refutation of the Resurrection. And secondly would need to prove that the apostles died for a lie. Empirical evidence is not the only kind we can rely on to support events such as the...
  15. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Conclusions: More Objections Answered No alternative to a real resurrection has yet explained: the existence of the Gospels, the origin of the Christian faith, the failure of Christ's enemies to produce his corpse, the empty tomb, the rolled-away stone, or the accounts of the post-resurrection...
  16. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    We may conclude that there is no more reason to doubt that the Gospels come from the traditional authors than there is to doubt that the works of Philo or Josephus are authentic, except that the Gospels contain supernatural events. 2. External evidence: The disciples must have left some...
  17. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Note the sarcasm in the last sentence. It still applies today. William Lane Craig summarizes the evidence—the lack of evidence: The Gospels are a miraculous story, and we have no other story handed down to us than that contained in the Gospels....The letters of Barnabas and Clement refer to...
  18. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    The point is that this is what you get when the imagination goes to work. Once the boundaries of fact are crossed we wander into fairyland. And very nice too, for amusement or recreation. But the Gospels are set firmly in the real Palestine of the first century, and the little details are not...
  19. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    Refutation of the Myth Theory: Six Arguments (1) The style of the Gospels is radically and clearly different from the style of all the myths. Any literary scholar who knows and appreciates myths can verify this. There are no overblown, spectacular, childishly exaggerated events. Nothing is...
  20. SoldierofChrist

    How can you literally believe...

    The other form of counter-attack, by far the most popular, is to try to escape the traditional dilemma of "deceivers" (conspirators) or "deceived" (hallucinators) by interpreting the Gospels as myth—neither literally true nor literally false, but spiritually or symbolically true. This is the...
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