(January 28, 2015 at 6:13 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 28, 2015 at 6:08 pm)SteveII Wrote: No, your assessment of the OT is fine. I was trying to distinguish between revelation from God through man versus Jesus' revelation to man.
So why is it that you'll dismiss the islamic and mormon religions because their god claims come to the people via normal men, whereas you'll accept completely the exact same concept when it purports to come from the god you believe exists?
And again, if prophets aren't an adequate basis for the truth of a religion, then the god that you believe Jesus to be did not have an adequate basis for his religion, and when he claimed to be the son of that god, you should have no reason to accept that.
Good question. Thank you for actual dialog.
That is not the only reason to think mormonism and Islam is wrong. One has to weight the teachings as well.
It is the cumulative case for Christianity that makes it different. We have the OT and information that provides and then the NT which is radically different but fits the facts and completes the picture. We give weight to the OT, but it is not the same weight given to the NT. The OT was an incomplete revelation of God.