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Actually, I completely missed that you were an atheist. It doesn't really change anything I said. One thing that I think I would agree with you is that people might actually be better off with no understanding of Christ and Christianity than a seriously flawed understanding. To answer your...

Right, but this particular forum is a philosophy, not a theology forum

I would ask first, why should we do anything at all in life? Paul teaches us that whatever we do should be for the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31) and the Lord taught us that whatever we do should be according to God's will (Matthew 6:10). I cannot see how removing all mention of Jesus from...

I have heard other YouTube evangelists go so far as to say that the four Gospels were only written for the Jews, and that non-Jews need only pay attention to the writings of Paul. A sort of semi-Marcionism.

Christ has relevance for all because He is the means by which we are reconciled with God. His Incarnation, Death, and Resurrection allows us to become partakers of the Divine Nature (2 Peter 1:4). He came so that we could live life to the fullest extent (John 10:10), as was intended by God, in...

OK, maybe I should have gone into more detail. Your argument that the universe was created in six days required two premises to be true: (Premise 1) The Bible says that the universe was created in six days (Premise 2) Everything that the Bible says is true Keeping in mind that this is a...

I'm sorry - I'm not following. Are you saying if we take the verses Genesis 2:17 and 3:4 as premises, they prove the conclusion that everything the Bible says is true?

At least two Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church - John Chrysostom and Augustine - agree with your view that the Lord was referring to Peter's confession of faith and not Peter himself as what He was going to build his Church on. See Chrysostom's Homily 54 on Matthew and Augustine's Homily 10...

OK, that's fair. So your argument would be: (Premise 1) The Bible says that the universe was created in six days (Premise 2) Everything the Bible says is true Therefore: (Conclusion) The universe was created in six days Without arguing whether your conclusion is true or false, I would...

Can you give an example of a conclusion that you would argue is supported by the Bible?

I didn't think the OP was referring to only theological topics.

Obviously some familiarity with the subject matter is helpful, but sometimes not even that is necessary. What is needed to win a debate is to demonstrate that the opponent's argument is unsound, or at least invalid. An invalid argument is one in which the conclusion does not necessarily...

It is very easy to show that the King James Version is "corrupted". Get a copy of the Jewish Publishing Society's Jewish Study Bible, available from Oxford University Press. Its English-language translation of the Tanakh, like that of the King James Bible, is based on the medieval Masoretic...

You are presuming that what you state describes the beliefs of all Christians. Without going into the differences between western Christian beliefs and eastern Christian beliefs, I would submit that Christ Himself clearly described how He would determine who would be "delivered" to heaven. He...

That's really surprising. That sounds like the heresy of Paul of Samosata - He taught that Jesus was born as a normal man, but was infused with Sonship. I'm not sure when it was condemned, but it definitely was condemned by the time of John Chrysostom (who is a Doctor of the Roman Catholic...

That was Herbert Hoover's gig. It led to the Great Depression.

Perhaps he is assuming that the country will have to declare bankruptcy four times (like he did) in order to accomplish his goals.

I only watched the first three minutes. I am Orthodox, not a Roman Catholic, but that doesn't matter. We may disagree on what the "True Church" is, but at least we agree there is, in fact, a "True Church". Here were a few ironies from just the first 3 minutes: He identified very clearly that...

Yay! Truth by applause meter. Gotta love it!

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. At least Hitler had a plan. (But Hitler didn't like Slavic women)