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Posted by on July 10, 2011 at 16:18:43

In Reply to: Re: Please... posted by Farmer on July 09, 2011 at 03:29:38:

Farmer:

I always put my responses, especially the long ones, in Word Doc format, try to correct for spelling, syntax, etc. I still have what I wrote to MG--maybe the Coordinator(s) thought it was "preachy", or something not up to their standards.

However, although every major religion IS exclusivist, like it or not, some people like to try and pretend that "truth" lies somewhere in the "homogenization" of various opposing viewpoints, á la Hegelian “thesis-antithesis-synthesis” insistence about any “truth” (which is absurd on its face), and general historic Christianity is most often singled out as not having the "right", somehow, to express belief in, say, John 14:6, Acts 4:12, etc., in favor of what is "politically correct". And, the nature of the exclusivist claims of each major religion does not ALLOW, for the "others" to be true at all.


It's a matter of actually reading the basic manuscript of each with an intelligent and logical point of view.


A person like myself, a Bible-based Christian, should actually, and fairly, NOT be singled out for following the dictates of his own conscience, and adherence to the historic claims of historic extant manuscript-based beliefs.



Historic Bible-based Christianity does very well, thank you, in the free market place of ideas. After all, Christianity is ranked as the largest religion in the world today with approximately 2 billion adherents, which comes to about 34% of the world’s population.



And, Christ really did fulfill 365 prophecies from the Old Testament about Himself (see and also

He also said, in John 7:17, “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” If a person does that, the promise is clear. It’s an experiential offer, not a philosophical tease, or appeal to mere limited human reason.



And, when presented properly (and not as the false christ offered by a horrible little cult, like TF, and/or several others today), like Paul said, it’s not with the enticing words of man’s “wisdom”, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power, that our faith shouldn’t stand in the “wisdom of men”, but literally in the power of God—and, because of my own EXPERIENCE, I have seen this proven consistently true in my own life.

Sincerely,
OT2



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