Okay Drich, Huggy, GC, etc...
How about this: you guys get together with all the other denominations of christianity- all of them, don't skimp out on a single one, that'd be unfair- and you all come up with a list of all the things one need do to be a "true christian," and all the things that would discount one from the same label. Once you and the thousands of other denominations of your religion have made this yardstick by mutual consent, come here and present that list to us, and we can have this discussion of who is and isn't a true christian.
What you can't do is keep the list all to yourself, dispatching little tidbits of it to us as is convenient to you, because in that case we have no idea whether you're just making it up as you go along or not. What you can't do is assume you have exclusive rights to determine who is and isn't a christian without the say of the other denominations, without presenting proof that this is true, because your assertions of authority tend to clash with the assertions of authority of all the other denominations, and we have no reason to believe you over them.
Keep it fair, guys: all I'm asking here is that you don't just make this one big game of Calvinball. I don't think that's too much to ask, and it's odd that you guys haven't thought of that yourself.
How about this: you guys get together with all the other denominations of christianity- all of them, don't skimp out on a single one, that'd be unfair- and you all come up with a list of all the things one need do to be a "true christian," and all the things that would discount one from the same label. Once you and the thousands of other denominations of your religion have made this yardstick by mutual consent, come here and present that list to us, and we can have this discussion of who is and isn't a true christian.
What you can't do is keep the list all to yourself, dispatching little tidbits of it to us as is convenient to you, because in that case we have no idea whether you're just making it up as you go along or not. What you can't do is assume you have exclusive rights to determine who is and isn't a christian without the say of the other denominations, without presenting proof that this is true, because your assertions of authority tend to clash with the assertions of authority of all the other denominations, and we have no reason to believe you over them.
Keep it fair, guys: all I'm asking here is that you don't just make this one big game of Calvinball. I don't think that's too much to ask, and it's odd that you guys haven't thought of that yourself.
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