eanassir is just trying to legitimatize the Muslim religion on the back of Christianity. It's the oldest communication trick in the book. Keep comparing something bad to something a lot of people see as good and spin the yarns.
It's like making a purse out of a sow's ear !!
Have Faith....Making a purse isn't bad, it's a SILK purse that is difficult. :lol:
Well I wasn't arguing the merits of religion.
But the one thing you can say about Christianity as compared to the Muslims, is that it has come into the 21 century and it has produced some of the best countries in the world. Ones that everybody ( a lot anyways) want to immigrate to.
Who specifies what a miracle is? If a person goes to the grave as a non-believer then being resurrected would seem to be something that they could latch onto as being the 'miracle' that resulted in that person becoming a believer. I'm already a believer and no miracle, prayer is part of our 'instructions'.
Say a baby gets swept up by a twister and is found alive some distance away., I would call that an act of God, but unless everyone was saved from that storm it would seem to be 'random'.
because one has completed all the given tasks.
So far there is a list of 'miracles' that remains unfulfilled, ie return. Is that one requirement of a miracle?
Was the Noah's flood a miracle?
If you're still on the Angel stopping the donkey thing, he could reply: "What an ass!"
So what is the point of being chained to an ancient millstone if you're not permitted to find humour?I think you are more worthy of his reply.
so no,I wouldn't accept that claim from an animal any more than I accept it from you
Suppose an animal spoke to you this way: "Mohammed is a false prophet, you must accept Jesus Christ as your personal saviour or you will lose." Would that cause you to abandon Islam and become a Christian? I've little doubt your reaction would be, that can't happen, because that's a false claim. I'd agree that's a false claim, and I'd argue on exactly the same basis that your example in blue there is also a false claim, so no, I wouldn't accept that claim from an animal any more than I accept it from you. I'd need something a little more dramatic than that. If the only witness to the supposed miracle was me, that's reason enough by itself to reject the claim that a miracle happened, human perception is too easy to fool. I'd need something with lots of witnesses, all of whom agree precisely on what happened, and it's objectively verifiable. For instance, a crow flies in to a convention of physicists and announces that on a certain date and time the speed of light will be increased by one part in a thousand, and subsequent laboratory testing proves that it did. That I might buy.
Tell you what, the day that my doggies or cats start talking to me.........I'll get back to you with my answer. :smile:
You are correct Clifford the Bifford man. There is only ONE passage that says Son of God. The rest say God's son. Jesus even said we are all God's sons.First off, eanassir is right. Jesus never said he was the son of god, he said I am a son of god and he also said we are all children of god. On this point, eanassir is wrong in saying god had no sons or daughters as we are all the sons and daughters of god according to Jesus. The third thing is that any book written by men is not a book written by god. God only wrote his message in his creation and thus, it is only within his creation that you will find the message, that is, within nature. Books contain no truth, only wiggly lines on paper. The only holy book is the book of life.
Yes, and Christianity added on some elements from the Greek, Zorasters and Hindus.Argha-Noa was the the annual celebration in ancient Egypt when the flood waters of the Nile subsided.....
Judeaism is based on Egyptian beliefs....
First off, eanassir is right. Jesus never said he was the son of god, he said I am a son of god and he also said we are all children of god. On this point, eanassir is wrong in saying god had no sons or daughters as we are all the sons and daughters of god according to Jesus. The third thing is that any book written by men is not a book written by god. God only wrote his message in his creation and thus, it is only within his creation that you will find the message, that is, within nature. Books contain no truth, only wiggly lines on paper. The only holy book is the book of life.
I believe Jesus said to give away all your worldly possessions in order to find the truth. Expensive but well worth the price. Ask any Buddhist monk.And where can one buy that and who is the author? :lol: