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What is a 'true Christian'?

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05-09-2014 11:37 AM 		Reply to: Message 4 by nwr
05-08-2014 11:24 AM

Moses made a huge mistake when he included a commandment against adultery instead of one against homosexuality.
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Actually you are told not to covet thy neighbors ass ... thus covering bestiality and sodomy in one fell swoop.
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(and there were probably more on the third tablet, the one Moses dropped ... )
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05-10-2014 8:33 AM 		Reply to: Message 39 by faceman
05-10-2014 1:11 AM

How's this analogy then: If I think I'm a Darwinian evolutionist (ToE), but believe in a young Earth and that Jesus died and rose again, does that still make it so?
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You would still be wrong about the age of the earth. To my view the possible validity of a specific worldview is inversely related to the amount of objective empirical evidence that needs to be denied in order to maintain beliefs in a consistent manner.
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This can be pursued further at Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1
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Can I bridge that dichotomy of worldviews, just by my saying so?
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No, not by just saying so, it has to come from understanding and an integration of the information into the worldview.
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Not a true dichotomy, but certainly it creates cognitive dissonance. Can you believe something that must be false (a young earth)?
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Christianity didn't die when the Earth was no longer believed to be the center of the universe did it?
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