Jakke
Pretty wisdomous
All these discussions end up in heated debates. I have not seen any good coming from them.
I imagine on these forums a true Christian is "fresh meat" for those vocally opposed to the message of Jesus.
I'm curious, what arbiters a true christian? There are about 41000 different christian denominations in the world, it's very statistically unlikely that one denomination outside of the major ones would sit on The One Truth.
Speaking biblically, didn't Jesus give the mission to Paul to build his church (you are the rock on which I will build my church, and so forth)? Thus logically following of course that catholicism would be the one true faith, provided there is need for one.
I would imagine that you are not a catholic though, being from Texas and all.. Southern Baptist, or Pentecostal would be my guess, especially with that particular bible verse in your sig, catholics are generally not really followers of the Book of Revelation. They tend to view the extreme vagueness of it and just consider it allegorical.
I don't know anything about "fresh meat", I would imagine that any arguments speaks for themselves, and I certainly hope that everyone are intellectually honest enough to not attack you out of a knee-jerk.
We have a number of very christian people on this board, and I respect them deeply, because they are nice people, and they are very capable of defending their faith. What they don't do is pull the persecution card, which I find is unfortunately far too common from believers these days.
However, my belief is people believe what they want to hear.
But you have no actual logical or physical evidence that people chooses their beliefs?
There is of course a documentet phenomena where we unconciously select facts as important that happens to side with our beliefs, that's called confirmation bias. That bias acts on behalf of our beliefs however, not on them.