chapka

Mormonism has much more eyewitness testimony. The people who saw the Golden Plates even signed their names to it. We don't have to rely on twentieth-generation copies of what they allegedly told someone else happened.

TomT

Mormonism has no eyetwitness testimony. Just as Islam has one man who claims he saw something in a cave all by himself, mormons have one man who claims he saw something all by himself. That is how all cult leaders operate. But God of the Bible has over 500 eyetwitnesses of Christ's resturrection and all the apostles including Paul.

chapka

I take it you're unfamiliar with the 2,500-year history and extensive literature of Buddhism, just to start with? And for that matter, what about Judaism? The Talmud is a hell of a lot more impressive and has more writers than the New Testimony, and when you add in Tanakh and Mishnah, they've got you beat dead.

And, of course, there's the Mormons.

TomT

Christianity always wins every discussion.

TomT

Buddhism makes no claim on God. It simply says if you sin you can come back as a chicken. So though there are long religions, they are also easily disproven. But Christianity has a long time of agreement and many writers in agreement (40 writers) with no coming back as chickens.

The reason coming back as a chicken is a lie is because then sin has no real accountability since you always get another chance. That is unrighteous and evil.

TomT

The Talmud is not impressive at all. It rejects its own Messiah who came to die on the cross. It prophesied the Messiah, then when He came they call Him a liar and kill Him. Crazy stuff.

TomT

These other religions you mention just don't have the documentation to substantiate them as anything other than worshipping idols and as like wood and stone. The claim of resurrection and deity usually occurred after Christ died on the cross as well. These are called mystery religions, trying to copy God's entry into creation, yet they have no credibility as even less than 1% of the population knows about them.

If God is going to reveal Himself in creation he would not be so cruel to have such hidden mystic knowledge. Almost everyone has heard of Christianity.

Therefore you have to make a choice: Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Atheism, Agnosticism. These are your only viable choices by the graces of God.

chapka

Please open your Book of Mormon (I assume you have one, or are you just talking out of your ass?) In the front of the book, before the first book, you will see the signatures of the Three Witnesses and the Eight Witnesses, to whom Joseph Smith personally showed the Golden Plates delivered to him by the Angel Moroni. Your statement above is simply wrong. The Mormons do in fact claim eyewitness testimony, and we have a lot more evidence that those men were eyewitnesses than we do for anything in the Bible. The Three Witnesses attest that they personally heard the word of God declaring the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and saw an angel come down from heaven bearing the plates. Sure sounds like eyewitness testimony to me. Show my Paul's signature on anything if you want to put your evidence up against that.

How can you claim that your religion is unique if you don't even know the rudimentary, basic facts about the religions you're comparing it to?

chapka

In other words, you are saying that Buddhism is false because it is not Christianity? Do you understand why nobody is likely to be convinced by that argument?

TomT

Buddhism and Hinduism are a lie since you are not coming back as a chicken. Islam is a lie for it calls Jesus a liar 600 years later when Jesus said He is God and the apostles said they saw Him resurrected. Islam would be doubleminded in saying it agrees with the Bible, for it obviously then does not considering what the Bible says.

Atheism is a lie since uncreated had to have created because nothing happens all by itself: there is always cause and effect.

Agnosticism is a lie since atheism is a lie, so not to know atheism is a lie is a lie. And to call Christ a liar when there is no reason for doing so is without grounding.

So Christianity always wins.