(September 10, 2019 at 10:24 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Pointing to someone who disagrees will not make that minority viewpoint anything more or less than what it is.
I'm pointing to some who disagrees with you that it's minority viewpoint. You'd just claim it's a minority view point, you haven't actually supported this.
I've asked you what rough percentage of Christians at the time if ask the question, the way Origen did, would agree with him? If you only a minority would agree with him, what percentage would you give this minority? If Origen suggest that the majority of people would agree with him, how do I determine whether your conclusion is anymore accurate than his?
Quote:As a contemporary believer you may think that Origen provides justification for denying a literal reading of genesis....that Christianity doesn’t depend on it....but that’s your mistake, not atheists, and not Origens...heretic though he was in so many other ways.
Another unsupported claim by you. You claim I'm mistaken in my interpretation of Christianity, the NT, etc.. But you have yet to indicate how or what I'm mistaken about it, and why it's a mistake.
When it reality you're probably more mistaken about what I believe, and what the NT writing indicate, or what the early christians believed, than I am.