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The self-righteous mindset was directly related to their beliefs, unless of course interpreting the Law of Moses wrong is an action and not a belief. [/sarcasm] We see Jesus not only setting their actions right, but their beliefs as well (for instance when he said that what goes into a man...

The Pharisees didn't believe who Jesus was and their actions were an outworking of that belief. If they believed Jesus like the Centurion did, or even the bumbling disciples did - well, the Gospels would have ended differently. Calling the Pharisees "broods of vipers" is turning them away...

You didn't offer an interpretation in the first place, all you did was quote the passage (I am not into the "plain reading" as some conservatives are). I said that your interpretation of Mt 13 contradicts what Christ did. What do you think about that? How can you be a follower of Jesus Christ...

That's not very nice of you. Remind me if this judgment on conservatives is uniting or dividing Christianity. For my part, I didn't mention liberalism once. Should I have?

I've already been walking a middle ground between "subjectivity" and "objectivity," evidenced when I said that there's a difference between a degree of subjectivity and wholesale subjectivity. "Wholesale subjectivity" being the view that says anything is possible, the view you espouse below...

I still don't even understand what that means. How is that a meaningful distinction in real life? No one is denying that different religions can contains an element of the truth. That's obvious! It has been argued at least by Justin Martyr at the beginning of the second century down to the...

No, what happens in history is true whether or not anyone sees it. In the case of Christ's resurrection appearances, we can evaluate the relevant texts and see whether or not they indicated a "vision" or an actual appearance outside of the person involved. Then I don't believe the language you...

In a world where God reveals certain truths independently of human rationalization (e.g. the resurrection appearances, which so many "Christians" today are willing to deny), no, all truth does not start out subjectively. The thing is that the term "subjective" is not very helpful in these types...

A degree of subjectivity isn't the same thing as total subjectivity.

Not everyone bases their beliefs on "feelings." That is an insulting strawman at best and dishonest at worst.

This board has changed so much in the past few years.

Reps to you ^_^

If this happened in the US, there would be widespread protests.

Why do you say that?

At the same time, the US's political influence can be critical when voting on intervention. Right now Ban Ki-Moon is just negotiating with Sudanese leaders; in contrast, the US has explicitly called the killings in Darfur genocide.

No.

Yes, Jesus had the ability to sin. Of course, that is not to say that He did sin. That which is not assumed is not redeemed.

The fact is they kept the Sabbath as an expression of Christ's resurrection; they didn't keep it in the same way the Jews did. Remember that even as the first century progressed - and this was while the Apostles, who were of Jewish ethnicity, where all alive - the distinction between Jewish and...

If you say that Sunday isn't the Sabbath, then you would have to keep on Saturday - as the Jews did. But there are two problems with that. One, if you were to follow the Sabbath as the Jews did, you would do it according to the Jewish calendar - on Friday evening until Saturday evening. Two...

Well, it depends on the religion. Most religions don't have a falsifiable event, whereas Christianity has Jesus' resurrection. Islam, for instance, says that the Quran was first revealed to Muhammed though the angel Gabriel.