What is "FAITH"

[Esquilax]

Your strong point in life will be name calling, to be honest there's not much money in it.

Perhaps you skipped over the several lines of text before I called you a dick?

Name callers have a lack of self confidence, I can understand why you state to all Christians we are arrogant, shame you've never experienced confidence in yourself.

Did I say all christians were arrogant? No, I said you are arrogant; most christians are entirely capable of modulating their beliefs in accordance with the facts. Only a select few of them have the astounding ego to demand that their opinions be taken as divine truth.

The only problem here is your ability to comprehend.

Or, your ability to express a thought that actually correlates with exterior reality.

Man you're one mixed up dude, one minute it's you Christians have to many opinions, how are we to know who's right, the next minute it's you all sound the same how are we to tell you apart. You sir have some serious problems.

And where, exactly, did I say you all sound the same? My entire point is that there are so many branches of your religion, all slightly different, most holding at least a few propositions that contradict the edicts of the others, and yet all claiming that they are exactly the right one. The sole uniform aspect of all you christians is that you all claim you're exactly right on every point, by fiat.

So, how do we tell which is the right one?

Are you afraid to answer my question? I did not put it behind hide tags so you can easily reread it, I even put it in bold so you can't miss it.

I linked to a whole list of christian denominations. Did you not bother clicking on my link again? I put it there because it was easier than physically writing an answer to your (dishonest, logically inconsistent and thoroughly unreasonable) request.

Exactly what verses are you speaking of, there are those I have stated are my belief and not that of others and I may not be correct on those, now that we have eliminated those, which verses.

Your interpretation of christianity dude. Because there are others, convinced that they are true christians, that disagree with you, possibly on multiple points. It can't have escaped your notice; even individual churches tend to disagree on at least a few points of their divine mandates. That's why you've got homophobic congregations, racist ones, and by contrast entirely accepting ones. You've got evolution-accepting churches and creationist ones. Etc etc.

How can you tell that you've got it right and they've got it wrong?

The only verses I ever argue here are the ones others bring up, that line is one of your standard lines got anything of any relevance. Yes I allow the Holy Spirit to guide me in the scriptures, if I didn't I would be as ignorant about them as you are.

How do you know you're being guided by the holy spirit? How can you demonstrate this to anyone else?

How do you know?

How is that a threat, you've stated you would rather be in hell than spend an eternity with God, a threat presupposes fear, don't tell me your getting scare of hell at this point in your life, if so I'll stop saying those things to you and say, now maybe you will see the light.

No, a successful threat presupposes fear. A threat can be made and still leave the threatened unmoved. And yet here you stand, leering and telling me you think- possibly hope- that bad things are going to happen to me. You are expressing a violent hope for my future, and I don't have to believe it'll happen to be irritated by it.