TomT

The Bible is defined as the 66 books of the Bible. There is the Old Covenant which Jesus sums up and whom the OT prophets and law were pointing to in Christ. This is why on the mount of transfiguration Jesus was seen with Moses and Elijah. Moses represented the law and Elijah the prophets.

TomT

Christians don't start with the premise Christianity is true, for we first look at why the law was given to show man his sin. We see then why Christ comes to replace the sacrifices as the perfect sacrifice. We see where man first sinned in the garden in disobedience to God, even in the first God-conscious created man. From this we know creation is true because nothing happens all by itself, so the uncreated created. Who is uncreated? The only one that qualifies for this is Jesus since He was resurrected, fully testified in sinlessness and those who witnessed His resurrection also said they saw it, and were put to death for it. No man has never not sinned except Jesus. Therefore we know He was not in the flesh but in the likeness of the flesh as the Bible says.

TomT

There are over 500 souls in eyewitness of the resurrection of Christ, far exceeding any other. Christianity wins.

TomT

You know Star Trek to relate to your understanding of logic. Spock says if all known possibilities are impossible then it must be the seemingly impossible that is true. So, since nothing in creation happens all by itself, and there is always a cause, therefore there must be a first cause caused by the uncaused.

Such simple truth.

So therefore, the simple question becomes who revealed Himself as God as a loving God would for His creation to save souls? Only Jesus qualifies, for he trumps everyone else in His authority and works.

hasselhoff

I'll make sure to scold the next naughty electron I catch tunneling across a potential barrier. "Bad electron! Observe cause and effect!"

Could you please quote the person you're responding too? Many people read these forums without threading, and it's very difficult to figure out who or what you're responding too.

Weltall

You can be a Buddhist and not believe in reincarnation. I'm not as well up on my Hinduism but seeing how many varieties there are, I'm pretty certain at least one allows for a measure of disbelief in that regard.
You know that Christians have been debating amongst themselves whether or not Jesus was God or not since the whole silly thing started, don't you? Actually, you probably don't.
And yet... when we find these 'key aspects' of your religion, suddenly we're mistaken even though they're identical to things you find silly in every other religion.Do you eat shellfish perchance? How about the clothes you're wearing. I'll just bet they're made of more than one kind of material. You do know that you'll go to hell for that, right?Damn, that's another irony meter blown. Here's some food for thought: If you presuppose the existence of sin, you're presupposing some of the tenants of Christianity in order to 'prove' that it's correct. Circular logic much?You have the gospel writers claim that there were 500 eyewitnesses (when they themselves weren't). No evidence outside of non-eyewitness testemony has ever substantiated this claim. Want to prove me wrong, produce a letter written by one of these 500. Go on, you know you want to.:banghead:

TomT

Buddhism says you are reincarnated so you can't believe in Buddhism; though, you can make up that you believe in a tangent of Buddhism, but that is really your own religion onto self.

TomT

Think of it this way. In the Kingdom of Heaven there are the saved and the unsaved. All outside the kingdom of heaven are unsaved. In the Kingdom of Heaven there is every kind of person and view within the confines of being defined as being in the kingdom of heaven as having the appearance of being saved. Just as there is arguing outside the kingdom of heaven, there is arguing in the kingdom of heaven.

Now if you just isolate the saved souls in the kingdom of heaven who have eternal life, there is even disagreement in this bunch on details, however, not on the basic foundational principles of Christainity. The differences therein will be rewarded by God.

The most spiritual Christians will receive the greatest reward of returning and reigning with Christ. The fleshly Christians will lose the reward of reigning in the millennial kingdom.

However all the saved souls are in the new city in the new earth when rewards are done away with and so will the law be gone.

Weltall

Let me guess, all you ever learned about Buddhism came from a fundy preacher or scraps from a pamphlet that you've interpreted to your own tastes. Am I right?

Mythra

I was a christian for 25 years, and then decided to actually look into it.

Trust me, Tom. You are WAY over your head in this forum.