re: Interesting how "Evangelicals" are separating themselves from "Protestants".

I’m not an atheist.

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I’m not an atheist.

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Thank you for your clarification. Whatever you are, you seem to be hostile to Christianity.

Questions for the "polytheism" crew

1. What's the difference between dalliances in idol worship and polytheism?
2. If, even as late as the 1st temple period, Jews were "polytheistic" why does the Bible record prophets who proclaimed the immorality of idol worship?
3. If earlier Jews were polytheistic, why is Islam, an abrahamic religion, strictly monotheistic with no signs of any polytheistic origins or history? Did both religions collude to hide their past or is it just blind coincidence that they both separately did the exact same scrubbing of their past? That seems mighty convenient, to the point of being ad hoc
4. Why haven't any polytheistic texts of worship been discovered? Not just mention of other gods or the presence of foreign idols? Full blown worship or devotion or praxis aimed at a pantheon? The previous questions were about negative evidence. This is a question of positive evidence
5. Are you familiar with the criterion of dissimilarity? Would you happen to know why it's germane to this topic?

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whoopdi doo Basil

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That pesky evidence. It keeps getting in the way. Let me just dismiss it blithely

And again, the Bible tells us plainly people in God's presence aren't concerned with the things of this world

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Get off your high horse you Baptist

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HA. Says the Catholic. That's rich

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Wrong, and no serious historian believes this. It’s historically stupid

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That they occasionally worshipped foreign idols? What scholar DOESN'T believe that? Name names genius

Question for the polytheistic crew.

List the Jewish scholars, contemporary and historical, who assert that Jews were thoroughgoing polytheists.

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the Israelites were Cannanites. They spoke the same language and had the same cultural and religious practices

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Oh. You're one of those people. Hello Israel Finkelstein. lol

His moronic book continues to be refuted by archeology

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It boils down to simple differences of opinion. You and I have discussed each difference of opinion for years on Political Talk. There's no need to go back now and re-visit each one. Each of us is telling the other that we misunderstand The Word of God.

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I guess my concern with you specifically is that I don't recall you providing much justification for your opinion, other than linking out to CA for the RCC's opinion. I suppose if your opinion is always going to be whatever the RCC teaches on something, then there's no point in discussing with you.

These discussions are not just meant for you and I, though, but for anyone else who wants to take the time to read. I would think you would want to convince readers of why the RCC is to be preferred on any particular difference.

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And with this one sentence you have exposed yourself as someone who has NEVER read the Word of God with the intent of learning and understanding You have ONLY read the Word of God with the intent of breaking down and nullifying it.

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Then how do you explain people having different interpretations of what the “Word of God” says? Other than “John somers and Foo” are the sole arbiters of the truth.

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That they occasionally worshipped foreign idols? What scholar DOESN'T believe that? Name names genius

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You’re retarded or deliberately being obtuse. Possibly both.