(August 8, 2014 at 1:51 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: First, the burden of proof is with the OP to prove p is a Christian.Not to derail the discussion, but just how does one prove that a person is a Christian? Even Christians don't seem able to come up with a description that is agreeable to all self-professed Christians. And the people who seem to use the "No True Christian" accusation the most, IMO, are... other Christians!
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only they worship god and Christ in the proper manner, and that therefore they are the only true followers of Christ (which is kind of funny, considering that they're one of the few faiths that shunt him off into a secondary spot on the roster). And they're not alone in accusing other faiths of Not Doing It The Right Way. Should it really be this difficult to figure out how to determine if a person is a True Christian?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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