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If anybody lies, it's easy to quote them and expose their lies. You might want to try that instead of just pounding the IDIOT! key with your clenched fist in every post.The best way to drive your opponents crazy is to stay cool.

Is that the geographic equivalent of numerology?

I think the phrase "to meet me" makes it clear that he did expect a human being. You don't expect the cows to come and meet you. You expect your wife and children.And your interpretation trivializes the whole story. It's the equiivalent of Jephthah saying to God, "Hey, if you help me out I'll give you a nickel." His intent was clearly to give a special offering, not just a run-of-the-mill animal offering that he would have given anyway.

And yet the story is pretty clear that he did.

On the contrary, practically every religion attributes disasters to the judgement of the gods. That's one of the main reasons religion exists.

No matter how many times you "remind" me, it's still nonsense. The primary function of all religions is to explain natural phenomena, both good and bad (e.g. good crops, bad crops). The main factor in all religions is a "relationship" with the gods, whether they are The One True God that you claim or what you call false gods or demons. All religions have their peculiar details but none stands out as unique, including Christianity.

We know what you'd say. It's still just your own empty opinion.If you want to claim that Christianity is unique, you have to show that it's unique, not just say that its lapels are a millimeter wider than any other religion's. It has nothing to do with political correctness. I haven't said a word about the "equivalence" of religions. I've simply pointed out that all religions have what you claim is unique to Christianity.The ideologies may be disparate but only in detail, not in principle. You have said nothing substantial to the contrary.

One hundred and eighty degrees wrong. Christianity - particularly the fundamentalist cults - requires more seeking than many other religions. Remember "Seek and ye shall find"?In "primitive" religions, on the other hand, you're often born into your "relationship" with the gods just by being a member of the tribe (club).

Every claim you have made has been shot down in flames. The problem with your approach is that you're trying to prove a negative, that "no other religion" is comparable to Christianity.All you can say is, "Our cross is made of a different kind of wood." Then somebody points out that you are wrong and you say, "Well, our God is the only one with six toes," and somebody points out that you are wrong again. You can go on forever claiming insignificant differences but they're still insignificant.The very fact that you're trying to prove a negative should set off alarm bells in your head.

That's what I said; it's just your point of view. It has no truth value. You might as well try to "argue" that you like ice cream.Nobody is disputing that your opinions are your opinions. What's being shown is that your point of view doesn't match reality. You're seeing pink unicorns when the reality is horses.

I'm just pointing out that Faith has been wrong on virtually every point about Christianity's uniqueness. What seems unique from her point of view is not really unique in the big picture. By analogy, your wife might be perfectly unique from your point of view but to the rest of us she isn't easily distinguishable from a thousand other wives.

That's exactly my point: to anybody but the husband, they pretty much are.

Trusting it without testing its accuracy IS jumping to a conclusion.

You're talking about a feedback loop. Nonetheless, you have to make that first leap of faith before you can get any feedback. That IS jumping to a conclusion, even if the conclusion is later confirmed.

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Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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I wonder who the Preacher copied that from.