LOL "the founder of the ENTIRE belief-system".Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:12 pmIsn't that funny? I not only answered the question, but answered it with specific reference to the Founder of the entire belief system...henry quirk wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:00 pmSee? You answered the question, but didn't answer it -- I'm sure -- the way you were supposed to, so someone will proclaim you're bein' deceptive or cowardly.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 2:10 pm
Well, I can help you out with that. Jesus said,
“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:13-14)
The question is, on which side of that line are you wanting to be?
What it comes down to is: Mannie won't cooperate and help me dismantle Christianity so he's bad.
Did NOT ANY one BELIEVE ANY thing, until a human being FOUNDED the ENTIRE belief-system?
Is not the 'belief-system', itself, just a part of human being 'reasoning'?
Did the 'belief-system' really NOT exist prior to about 2000 years ago?
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 4:12 pm and that's somehow not going to be a "good" answer? How does one "deceive" by quoting the precise words of the Founder? How is one "cowardly" by being completely direct? Would an answer I made up out of my own head be somehow more "authentic"? It's hard to see how, assuming I am capable of any less accurate representing at all.
But you may be right. Maybe it's not about getting the truth, but rather about getting what one wishes to get.
I wonder how I was "supposed to" answer the question...I must be guilty of failing to read somebody else's mind, I guess.