You love your Fish Soooo much, but.......

BugSplatt · #1 10-16-2004, 02:02 AM

The fish anology is lame, dude. Come on!

Bug

tripdad · #2 10-16-2004, 01:48 PM

a lot of people do not really understand what many Christians believe....that Jesus IS God...God took the form of man to demonstrate His love and to save us from eternal absence from God(Hell). (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost...one in the same) it's not easy at all to explain, so the fish analogy is just an oversimplified way of doing that.

cheers!

BugSplatt · #3 10-16-2004, 02:32 PM

You know Tripdad, there are far more similarities between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam than there are differences. One main difference, however, is that the latter two - while holding Jesus in high regard (a prophet, I suppose) - don't consider Jesus to be the son of God.

The main similarity? You all think you have "The one RIGHT way."

If it is RIGHT for you, great! Leave it at that. I can think of entire races (North American Indians, for one) who were far better off before Christianity came along and pillaged what was theirs. When it became too much trouble bumping off the natives, they went after the next thing of convenience - the native's food supply. The buffalo was slaughtered to the brink of extinction.

You do not have a monopoly on "the one right way."

End of story,

Bug

tripdad · #4 10-16-2004, 03:26 PM

nowhere in any of my posts do i denigrate another's religious beliefs.

cheers!

spamuell · #5 10-18-2004, 09:05 AM

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similarities between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam... The main similarity? You all think you have "The one RIGHT way."

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With regards to Judaism at least, this isn't true. There are orthodox Jews who are willing to accept that there is one Absolute Truth which can be interpreted in more than one way by humans, and there can be several correct relative Truths, although this does not mean that everything claiming to be truth is correct. For example, see The Dignity of Difference by Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.

Anyway:

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You do not have a monopoly on "the one right way."

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What gives you the authority to say this? Maybe there is one right way that there is a monopoly on. How can you say that there is not?

Anyway, isn't saying that there is no monopoly on the right way essentially claiming that it is right that there is no right way, which is claiming that there is at least a monopoly in relation to monopolies on the truth?