mouthy
They do not accept Jesus as the Creator ( which Scripture says he is)
I understand your point of view, but you are essentially saying that your interpretation of scripture is right and theirs isn't.
Thus my comment about Shakespeare; the Bible (and any large written work) is frequantly interpretable in several different ways.
For example;
- The inspired literal word of god
- An uninspired historical record dating from the events covered
- A pseudo-historical record put together a long time after the events covered
- Writings of prophets that have become inaccurate and diluted over time, and were replaced by an accurate work of inspiration
... and that is just regarding the provenance of the book, let alone what a particular passage may or may not mean.
We cannot pretend the Bible is like a car manual, telling us to use XTF 40/120 on the roller cam bearing. Even when it is explicit it frequently contains other passages which can be argued to contradict a seemingly explicit statement.
Equally sincere people can come up with alternate beliefs based upon the same text.
As the text does not allow any of these people to make a determinable claim of accurate interpretation, to make one by alleging others aren't Christian is unwise.
All you are saying is "according to my interpretation of the Bible, a book I believe to be in some way true and worthy of attention, some people who claim to be Christians are not Christians".
As this is exactly what a Witness would say, it gets you no where.
