Really?
Islam is a religion. The average Muslim would be the average follower of Islam.
According to Islam, Yeshua (called Isa) was a prophet that was killed by the Romans and Jews. Isa's teachings where corrupted by man to serve their own purposes including the idea of the trinity which the...
I was more blunt than I should have been.
I have heard the exact same arguments a lot from people who never played it or had not played it at all after the 1st expansion.
It's not worth debating over.
I did not say it was correct. I said it was common Christian opnion.
I have met a lot of conservative and liberal Christians and believe it or not the majority of Christians believe in things like evolution.
Your Christian opinion =/= majority Christian opinion.
Oh I just wanted the basic idea of the gospels to be validated, but you see I have found literally no reasons to believe that the Bible is correct while I have found numerous that show why it cannot.
That could be explainable in that many would consider a blasphemer in their own religion more dangerous than someone from another religion.
Not to mention that most of the Christians in the U.S., which most politicians at least claim to be in the U.S., would want to defend Israel if that...
The article only quotes one source, not providing proper citation, and the source it goes to only has a twitter picture that does not pull up anything when backsearched news site that did not cite or quote anything in their article. And if that was not enough, that article did not even say what...
It is rather suspect that only the most popular religions at the time of it's founding where considered the "true" religions.
How do they explain away the conflicting themes and goals in many of these religions?
I'm fairly certain that there have been Muslim and atheist scholars of Christianity. I do not think that belief is necessary in order to study a religion.
When I first went out to college I met some Baha'i and they where really nice and invited me to one of their meetings. So I went and I had these same problems, when I tried to talk about it with one of them he just seemed so hurt I gave up on it.
A lot but not all Christians would say the following:
Common Christian Opinion 1: "Adam and Eve where tricked by Satan to disobey God so God punished them for it with original sin."
Common Christian Opinion 2: "It is a metaphor about how people fell from grace."
Common Christian Opinion 1...
That's not what I was meaning.
I said that Islam has a better explanation for Christianity than Christianity has for Islam.
I did not say that the average Muslim has a better explanation for Christianity than you do for Islam.