(October 26, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Kingpin Wrote: Help me understand here. Are you saying that because Christians don't 100% agree on even basic tenets of "core beliefs" then it negates its validity? I don't want to assume thats what you mean, but I have seen that premise espoused here by others.
What we usually say - in response to assertive claims of holding the absolute truth - is pointing out the differences. From which it follows that not everyone, if anyone at all, can have it right. Claiming that there are no differences, as OP does, is totally dishonest or totally ignorant.
Just to scratch the surface here and as I was saying a while ago. There are fundamental differences in core believes between Roman Catholics or Evagelicals. Yet they all define themselves as christian. Sometimes to the point of denying the other group the status of being christian.