@Harold <= Fallacy of a Weak Analogy
NOUN:
1: One who professes belief in Jesus as Christ or follows the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus.
2: One who lives according to the teachings of Jesus
Lets start with “YOU are wrong, and obviously wrong.”. That’s a ridiculous thing to say in a religious debate. Religion is based on beliefs, not facts. Which segways nicely into my next point.
“Following your ideas means that one can introduce anything they like into a church, and just because some people believe it, it is somehow suddenly a Christian teaching.”
Catholics, Protestents, Lutherans, Baptists, Evangelicals, Non-Denominationals, Pentecostals. They all call themselves ‘christians’, none of them interprete the message of christ the same way. Yet they all believe they are following the ‘teachings of christ’. So who’s got the “right” answer? Do you? Were you alive 2,000 odd years ago, were you one of his disciples?
Through out history, how many hands of man were involved in writting the books of the bible? How many were involved in picking and choosing which books accurately depicted christ and which should be discarded? And of these men, how many of them knew Jesus,
the man?
The christian religion has been revamped a hundred fold to suite the purposes of men, how closely can it still accurately reflect the original message? Anything and Everthing has been introduced into ‘the church’ and within it’s own circle is considered a christain teaching.
So on principle, I’m going to have to say “Sorry, but that is just plain ridiculous.”