Religious Stew

Stand To Reason ^ | 1995 | Gregory Koukl

[AreaMan]

Maybe He needs to come back every few years and shake everyone's hand since that's apparently the only way folks such as yourself "might" believe it. Though, something tells me that wouldn't work either...

Doubting Thomas....?

[muir_redwoods]

My sense of humility prevents me from ever criticizing another person's approach to G-d. It is a subject no one understands well enough to make a claim of expertise. Any understanding of the Deity must, by definition, be approximate and inaccurate. Humility is the only position from which to approach the question, IMHO

[AreaMan]

My sense of humility prevents me from ever criticizing another person's approach to G-d.

But you then go on to say:

Humility is the only position from which to approach the question, IMHO

I would have accepted the first statement if you hadn't contradicted it with the last one.

[muir_redwoods]

I see no contradiction in a sentence I identify as my humble opinion.

[Pahuanui]

I call this idea religious stew--taking little bits and pieces of different religions and putting them together in one 'pious porridge,' so to speak--the eclectic view, the religious smorgasbord view, where you go down the line and pick a little here and a little there, and you put it on your plate and call it your religion.

What's wrong with it? It's part and parcel of the history of Christianity.

[AreaMan]

actually...you are correct. I apologize. I didn't read close enough.

[AreaMan]

What's wrong with it? It's part and parcel of the history of Christianity.

So, Christianity is just a religious stew cobbled together from other religions?

[Pahuanui]

So, Christianity is just a religious stew cobbled together from other religions?

Who said that?

Christianity's most prized 'miracles' and events can, however, be found throughout pre-extant mythologies from the same areaa. Start with Gilgamesh and go up through the virgin birth, the resurrection, etc....

Sorry, but they all already existed, and the fact that they are to be found in the bible doesn't detract from the likelihood that they co-opted.

[itsahoot]

The only way to actually PROVE that religion is TRUE is for the GOD of that religion to come down and just tell us in his or her or its own omnipotent voice.

Do bad you haven't noticed that Jesus did just that.

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