(September 19, 2021 at 4:07 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: What is true, believe it or not, is the Scripture I quoted earlier
So, you are using Bible to prove Bible. That doesn't make sense because it is a circular argument.
(September 19, 2021 at 4:07 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: That's the difference in principle and practice/reality between the Holy Bible and other books you mention.
Seriously, what reality is in the Bible?
(September 19, 2021 at 4:07 pm)Mercyvessel Wrote: The fundamental difference in belief? - "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” - Acts 4:12 - that is, the Lord JESUS, the CHRIST - the Living Word.
The other religious people claim that their holy books are the only way to their version of "salvation" which is reincarnation, nirvana, 72 virgins in paradise, or clearing in Dianetics. And they have nothing more than their holy books to "prove" it, just as you do, so that makes you all on the same level of credibility or lack of it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
