Critique Time!

[Mister Agenda]

]Thats not true. Jesus spent much time ministering to the pharisees and answering their questions. He even went to them on the side. The story of Nicodemus is one where Christ Himself preaches the gospel and goes into great detail in answering every question he had. Eventually leading to his conversion.

Thanks, Drich, I forgot about Nicodemus, or rather, forgot that he was a pharisee. You're quite right, and I should have checked first before relying on my creaky memory.

While I do enjoy the opportunity to 'crow' more often then not, once the point has been made or the upper hand has been gained, I will drop the topic if no other questions or comments are made. (I forego the victory lap, and have done since the beginning.)

Fair enough.

I have offered to show people any and everything I have claimed if they want to come see for themselves. I live in orlando and it is really nice right now.

It's nice that you're willing to host, but not very reasonable to expect people to spend hundreds of dollars to see you when really they've no reason to think the trip will be productive. My practice is to not make claims on the internet that can't be verified on the internet.

The only thing I asked for is one day out of a weekend and you can do whatever else with your time here. I will make avaiable business, church, friends, family, medical records, who can verify everything I have talked about here.

The problem isn't your documentation. The problem is that having the documentation doesn't prove anything. People get better from serious ailments all the time, regardless of their religion or lack thereof. You don't need to prove your anecdotes are true. You need to prove that your anecdotes mean something if they ARE true.

I see empathy for the sake of empathy in a lot of what christians do now. However as with the way Christ spoke the truth of God's message, I don't see the empathy the Christian religion has adopted.

It might be helpful to separate empathy from sympathy here. For purposes of the conversation, how about empathy being the ability to understand someone else's point of view, especially emotionally; and sympathy being sharing their feelings: they're sad, so you're sad too, like that.

How he speaks to the pharisees, the rich young ruler, and even his deciples I don't see it. I see Christ standing for the truth first and then helping the people who truly sought it.

I'm not talking about 'being nice'. I'm talking about being able to understand other people.

Possibly because you were equating empathy with being nice?