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Disclaimer: Yorick, I’m not taking pot shots at you here. I believe we already resolved this issue but it makes for a good comparison. Please don’t take offense.
Earlier in the discussion pertaining to religion, Yorick and I had the same disagreement as it seems Cerek and Yorick are having with Pikachu. The site that Pikachu linked is trying to point out how Christians are wrong, but you can’t do that. People are never wrong when it pertains to what they believe. It is an opinion, and as such it is uncontestable.
As for the Bible, the book is mostly written in metaphoric form. This makes it very hard to take any snippet of the work and use it to support any claim. Without the supporting material that exists elsewhere in the work it doesn’t make sense.
We can disagree, we can argue, but we cannot be wrong. This is actually what I was trying to portray to Yorick, because once that is out of the way, I really enjoy discussing theological issues and concepts with people who are knowledgeable within their belief system. Comparing and contrasting during a discussion leads to greater understanding, and I have found doing so actually leads to many parallels people weren’t even aware existed.
Yorick,
If my assumption is correct that the argument concerning fact vs. opinion is settled, I would enjoy entering a discussion with you pertaining to the differences and similarities between our differing viewpoints. I didn’t want to start a thread pertaining to this sort of discussion until things settled down. I’m not looking for a religion vs. philosophy (I say philosophy because my beliefs are based upon philosophical principles, not mystical) war.
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