(November 19, 2014 at 6:26 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: What is this... the fourth or fifth theist that claims to know what a "True Christian " is?I would expect just about every Christian to draw a line between true followers of the faith and people who are mislead. In the Bible, Jesus said that some people would profess to be Christians and to have performed powerful works in god's name, but Jesus would disown them. The story makes you think that these people were sincere (why would they try to pawn off a fake faith on god himself, after all) yet Jesus turned them away.
But that just implies that even back then, understanding what was or wasn't the truth of god was open to interpretation and may have just been a shot in the dark. Christ admits to speaking to some crowds using analogies specifically to keep them from understanding, while he marveled at the faith and understanding of one or two non-Jews. So the Bible itself kind of lays the groundwork for the confusion and countless interpretations of what it contains.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould