TW wrote: "You mean to say that the contradiction between different belief systems would have to imply at least half of the entirety as incorrect."
No but when I was a Christian that was my experience and here in the states which is rife with Christianity and its innumerable variations to this day those churches compete with each other in a negative way. If you tell a Baptist, Methodist, or any other group that you are catholic they will tell you that the Catholic church is false and of Satan etc. etc. If you are Baptist and tell a Pentecostal that you are Baptist you will get a similar reply.
TW wrote: "My belief is that God has a dilute form which can function through different systems. My belief is that I found Him where I would understand Him."
If he his "dilute form" as you say can function through different systems, then wouldn't that defeat the purpose of revealing himself through his word to mankind? If I can get the same or similar feelings from god say through Hinduism for example then why bother to seek him through Christianity? Besides according to the bible god condemns other religious beliefs that are opposed to the one he has revealed.
No but when I was a Christian that was my experience and here in the states which is rife with Christianity and its innumerable variations to this day those churches compete with each other in a negative way. If you tell a Baptist, Methodist, or any other group that you are catholic they will tell you that the Catholic church is false and of Satan etc. etc. If you are Baptist and tell a Pentecostal that you are Baptist you will get a similar reply.
TW wrote: "My belief is that God has a dilute form which can function through different systems. My belief is that I found Him where I would understand Him."
If he his "dilute form" as you say can function through different systems, then wouldn't that defeat the purpose of revealing himself through his word to mankind? If I can get the same or similar feelings from god say through Hinduism for example then why bother to seek him through Christianity? Besides according to the bible god condemns other religious beliefs that are opposed to the one he has revealed.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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