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   From: theswain@operamail.com   
      
   Bill Baldwin wrote:   
   > Larry Swain (theswain@operamail.com) wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Bill Baldwin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>darylgene@aol.com (darylgene@aol.com) wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>Larry Swain  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>Bill Baldwin wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>At the same time, the analogy you use could be used against   
   >>>>>Christians by Muslims and Jews (and has been actually) to show   
   >>>>>that indeed the Christians worship a different God from the one   
   >>>>>they do   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Yep, I think they would be right.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>I agree. I'm puzzled as to why the above would considered a point   
   >>>against my claim.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>A debating point that can be turned around and used against you   
   >>without blinking an eye isn't much of a debating point.   
   >   
   >   
   > Ok, but this one can't. I'm not sure why you think you have done so.   
   > It's like me saying Americans are not British. And you reply, well a   
   > British person would claim that Brits are not Americans.   
   >   
   > Why yes. That's true.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >>BTW, the   
   >>Muslims and Jews who have used that analogy against Christians   
   >>have used in a manner to prove that the Christians are the   
   >>heretics and worshipping the wrong god.  And you claim to agree   
   >>with them.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > I claim to agree that we worship a different God, yes.   
   >   
   You seem to be missing the point.  The point was about who was right.   
   You claim that you worship a different god than they and they have it   
   wrong.  Those who have used the same argument against Christianity also   
   claim to worship a different god than the Christians and that you have   
   it wrong and they have it right.  Any argument and debating point that   
   works both ways and consists of "You've got wrong"  "No, you have it   
   wrong" and is based on nothing other than your firmly held belief isn't   
   much of a discussion, argument, or debating point.   
      
   Besides, you have yet to establish that we are talking about different   
   divinities here much less that yours is the right one.   
      
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