Posts by brotherdan

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After a Lifetime Wasted on Atheism - He Finally Gets It

by Perry in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1e4fuhfhiu&feature=player_detailpage .

i wonder if he offered an apology to all the people he helped deceive over the past 50 years?.

brotherdan

BD, would you be concerned if, in America, Muslims were the majority? What if they held prominent positions of authority and had numerous lobbies in their corner? Any concern for how that might affect you and your family, just due to the direction of the government? What if your Christian vote was lost in a sea of Muslim votes? What if this became a "Muslim country"?

That could happen and it is the right of every American to choose that. Yes, I would speak about it because I would be concerned with their salvation. Would I respect the votes of Muslims? Of course, just as I respect the decisions made by atheists that hold positions of authority. Until...it violates rights. I think that it is the right of people to teach what they believe. I am not opposed to teaching evolution in school. But why not teach the study of creation in school as well and let the child see both sides of the issue?

However, atheists are not concerned about anyones salvation. Can you prove that religion slows the progress of man?

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Are ALL religious ideas TRUE?

by brotherdan in

there was once a christian that was attending seminary that felt unusually bold one sunday morning.

he decided to go to a random church that he had never attended before.

he went to the service and sat in one of the pews.

brotherdan

So I guess my point is, to the man in the illistration that labeled the preacher as "going to hell" because he believes everyone is ok with God, I think the preacher is more on the right track than the student.

My point in using that story was that the preacher had to admit that not everyone had the "truth" or could be considered as having the "truth". He certainly did not think that he was going to hell. So he couldn't agree with the man that said he was going to hell. Therfore, all religious truths could NOT be accepted.

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Are ALL religious ideas TRUE?

by brotherdan in

there was once a christian that was attending seminary that felt unusually bold one sunday morning.

he decided to go to a random church that he had never attended before.

he went to the service and sat in one of the pews.

brotherdan

If God was truth before Christ came into being, then that would mean there was two truths.

This does not contradict. John 1:1 clears up this argument.

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Are ALL religious ideas TRUE?

by brotherdan in

there was once a christian that was attending seminary that felt unusually bold one sunday morning.

he decided to go to a random church that he had never attended before.

he went to the service and sat in one of the pews.

brotherdan

Also, I have issue with saying

Are all Dans teachings true

I don't think I've ever introduced anything new that is not in the Bible. So I don't have "teachings". If you have issue with Biblical teachings, that is fine. But they aren't "Dan's teachings".

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Are ALL religious ideas TRUE?

by brotherdan in

there was once a christian that was attending seminary that felt unusually bold one sunday morning.

he decided to go to a random church that he had never attended before.

he went to the service and sat in one of the pews.

brotherdan

In your example above of 2+2=4 you forgot something.

My point was that 2+2=4 is true to all people at all times in all locations. A truth cannot contradict a truth. Either BOTH are false or one is true and the other is false.

My point of the thread is to discuss the nature of "truth". All things cannot be true. But yet that is perpetuated in our post modernist society.

So what if you took Christ+Mohammed+Ghandi+Martin Luther King jr.= THE BIG PICTURE

The problem with this statement is that there are DEFINITE contradictions between them. For example, Ghandi, while a very good man, was a Hindu. The beliefs of Hindus are in direct violation of Christian and Muslim belief. Either 1 was wrong or all the were wrong. The law of contradiction means that two antithetical propositions cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense. X cannot be non-X. A thing cannot be and not be simultaneously. And nothing that is true can be self-contradictory or inconsistent with any other truth.

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What is your definition of a "Fundi" or a Fundamentalist?

by brotherdan in

i've been called a "fundi" many times in my discussions with people on the board, and i'd like to know what your definition is of a "fundi".

don't google it.

i just want to hear your personal definition.. i find it interesting because i don't go to any church.

brotherdan

Cheeze, I'd like to make a comment on one of your "reasons" for rejecting the God of the Bible:

ALL mankind could understand it without even learning to read and ALL mankind would have access to at ANY time.

According to 1John 5:1 reading the Bible is not even a requirement. It is believing that Jesus is the Christ. There were MANY that were illiterate in ancient times. Jewish tradition was passed down by word. Having a personal copy of a written Word of God is a relatively new concept.

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