"I asked you to show us the "Straw Man" which is falsely representing another's position and then attacking that false characterization instead of their actual position."
Its no surprise to me that you are blind to it. The guy throws everybody under this umbrella of his, except those I suppose who are bowing below his pulpit. It's what he has to do in order to maintain his coercive authority over HIS followers. The treatment taken as a whole represents a strawman attack for the reasons I have given. But if you want me to pick one or two examples ok. He concludes that ultimately....
Crapola: ...because people know inherently that it is impossible, ultimately, to deny distinction between right and wrong. You hold a pistol to someone’s head, and say, “Why shouldn’t I squeeze the trigger?”
He disses the concept of achieving oneness up one side and down the other as a contradiction with Christianity but it is not, the concept is pervasive in Christianity.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end." --Revelations 22:13
This concept that God is separate from Creation is not wholy Christian either.
“You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8).
The idea that an understanding and acts of Good and Evil is not possible for Christians could be made on his own argument of God being Separate from Creation. But it can be argued the other way too.
"Thy will be done on Earth as it is In Heaven."
Where did Jesus say to look if you are seeking the Kingdom of Heaven? ... Answer: "Within"
Where does goodness come from, what does the idea of 'coming to God' mean. When you are good is it because of your actions or because you are more 'One with God,' or have you never heard that concept.
"And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. (Cor 1:28)"
"Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. (Ephesians 1:23)"
"a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11)"
"And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you." (Romans 8:11)
Finally if something is revealed as truth and it can't be found coming from pulpit of some Authority of mainstream religion it throws you into a tizzy ... but don't feel alone, its nothing new.
Acts 17:8 They troubled... the rulers. Troubled, because it was a charge of disloyalty to the Roman Caesar, and of an attempt to have another king. They were utterly ignorant of the nature of Christ's kingdom. |
