And what was the point of that question?
I've told you 3 times already.
I wanted to learn what the OP's belief were on the subject at hand, as he seemed to hold views different from what I usually encounter with christians.
How hard is it to understand this?
Should I not ask questions when I wish to learn about someone's beliefs? Or would you rather prefer me to simply assume the answers?
To try to get him to renounce his Christianity. Don't play these semantic games.
False. If I wanted to say that he should renounce christianity, then I would lead with that. I don't see the point of trying to hide it if that is what my goal is.
Because I haven't seen enough of these kinds of debates to know where this kind of thing is going?
I'm not engaging in debate. I am asking question to better understand the OP's position. Questions to which I still haven't received any answers btw. I still would like to see them answered.
Why do you ask "what's the point of X" and imply that X has no point, if you don't want someone to give up on X?
You should read the post as it is written, not as you assume it to be.
Again, I asked him questions about what his beliefs were regarding the "exclusivity clause" that
he was ranting against in the OP, being that non-christians are doomed to hell.
His answers gave me the impression that he doesn't believe that and that he seemed to believe that all humans are saved by default through christ, regardless of being christian, atheist or what-have-you.
So, in the next post, I summarised what-I-understand-his-position-to-be and
I actually literally asked him to correct me if my summary was not accurate.
Then,
in case my summary WAS accurate, I asked follow up questions.
If being a christian is a requirement to even only be a candidate to enter this heaven thing, then obviously the point of christianity is quite clear.
If being a christian however is NOT a requirement to qualify as a potential candidate, and if being a christian in fact makes no difference to your chances to end up in heaven, THEN asking what the point of the religion is, seems to me to be a perfectly legitimate question.
Consider this analogy....
Suppose you have a TV that operates on voice commands and a remote control with flat batteries.
Suppose that every time you command the tv to switch channels, you grab the remote control first.
Holding the remote control makes no difference at all to switching the tv channels using voice commands.
Wouldn't it then be a perfectly legit question to ask you what the point of the remote control is? Since clearly you don't need it to switch the channel...
It could be that you hold it for different reasons then switching the channel. And in that scenario, I give you the benefit of the doubt that you actually might have such a reason
which is why I ask the question...
Otherwise, I would just flat out tell you that it is pointless. But I'm not. I'm asking to see if there is something that I'm missing.
You should make less assumptions about people.
