(July 19, 2012 at 1:15 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: I was making conditional statements (indicated by the "if"), and as such not assuming Christianity was true, but for the sake of argument making no judgment either way, and so not committing myself to any burden of proof for theism. If I did not do this, people would accuse me (and rightly so) of arguing in a circle. If you require me to prove the existence of God in order to say, "If God exists, then Y," I think you are making a mistake.
No, of course I don't require you to prove the existence of God to make such a statement.
However, given the existence of religions other than Christianity, each with it's own path to salvation, in order to reasonably make a statement "there is only one way to God…", you do have a burden of proof to demonstrate why yours is the correct one, and the others are wrong.