Meander_Z
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I think it's fun to watch so many people talking past each other without engaging in actual conversation.
You clearly do not believe man to be corrupt, behaviors may be done in error, may have poor results, or may even come from selfish motivations but such behaviors will never qualify to you as sins because you have a different initial assumption.
Even in mathematics there must be an agreement on the basic rules of the system before an answer can be considered correct.
If one functions from the given than man is corrupt and requires redemption in order to become purified enough to enter God's presence than the Christian argument is quite sensible. If one functions from the given that humans are evolved social animals functioning based on survival instincts and learned behavior in a world where no god exists, then the whole idea of salvation becomes completely ridiculous.
If one were to consider a religion to be the ONE true faith, one must accept some basic principles upon which truth can be derived. A Christian doesn't have to prove their faith to be the ONE true faith from an objective standpoint that is equally agreed upon by all people for all time, they need only to create a system that dismisses all systems that contradict their own. They have done so quite successfully, by claiming the authority of God as expressed through the Bible. So long as the Bible is the standard for the system, no non-christian will ever make headway in arguing any fallacy in the system. No internal contradiction or external evidence will suffice. You just can't beat the authority of God. You can beat your head against that system as long as you want, the system itself is perfect. It can be escaped from, as many non-Christians have done in the past, but it cannot be penetrated by outsiders.
Christians take sin as a given, a list is irrelevant since they believe that it is the nature of man to be corrupt, therefore whatever you have done and however innocently you may think your behavior to be, you are and shall always remain a sinner without the grace of God gifted in exchange for the blood sacrifice of Jesus.Mention the list of sins that I've committed please?
You can put it serial wise down.
You clearly do not believe man to be corrupt, behaviors may be done in error, may have poor results, or may even come from selfish motivations but such behaviors will never qualify to you as sins because you have a different initial assumption.
Even in mathematics there must be an agreement on the basic rules of the system before an answer can be considered correct.
If one functions from the given than man is corrupt and requires redemption in order to become purified enough to enter God's presence than the Christian argument is quite sensible. If one functions from the given that humans are evolved social animals functioning based on survival instincts and learned behavior in a world where no god exists, then the whole idea of salvation becomes completely ridiculous.
If one were to consider a religion to be the ONE true faith, one must accept some basic principles upon which truth can be derived. A Christian doesn't have to prove their faith to be the ONE true faith from an objective standpoint that is equally agreed upon by all people for all time, they need only to create a system that dismisses all systems that contradict their own. They have done so quite successfully, by claiming the authority of God as expressed through the Bible. So long as the Bible is the standard for the system, no non-christian will ever make headway in arguing any fallacy in the system. No internal contradiction or external evidence will suffice. You just can't beat the authority of God. You can beat your head against that system as long as you want, the system itself is perfect. It can be escaped from, as many non-Christians have done in the past, but it cannot be penetrated by outsiders.