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>>13752010
>-You seem to believe Christianity is true because it includes "objectivity" and "objective morality" - can you explain why you believe these make Christianity truer than other religions?
No other religion has the true, living God who incarnated in the flesh, communicated his message personally and subsumed human nature into himself. Who wrote his laws onto man's hearts and made man in his image. When you understand that Christ is the Logos then all other religions fade away. The God of islam is fully transcendent, so man has no existential connection to him, and as such has no access to the most fundamental truth and justification for the objectivity of logic, morality or freedom of the will. With Christ not only do we have a justification for our beliefs, but we also have an epistemic connection.

>-Do you think that questions like "how man relates to God" can be answered by humans? Is Christianity true because it provides answers to questions that we can't answer?
Of course it can be answered because we are made in His image and the truth dwells within us, albeit in a clouded form, obstructed by sin.

>-You argue that Christianity is true, but if that is the case why did Christian belief only develop once? Why weren't people who lived on isolated islands for centuries developing similar religious beliefs? Why did God only give Christianity to one set of people? Why do these isolated cultures tend to have religions that more closely resemble the esoteric? Shouldn't religious truth be something that can be understood by everyone? Why would it be dependent on access to a specific special book that not everyone has access to?
Paul already pointed out that when men have no direct revelation/prophets they have a law written in their conscience and if they follow that law they will be walking the good path, but if they reject that law then they are sinners and guilty. So no man has an excuse.
The prophets and patriarchs in the bible were not all hebrews, Adam and Eve were not hebrews, Noah and Seth and Enoch were not hebrews. Abraham was a chaldaen who formed a covenant with God and became the 'first' hebrew.
God's prophets tend to speak truths that the masses find unfavorable so prophets meet untimely deaths quite often. We don't know the fate of all prophets in the world.
But what Christians believe has always been the truth. Albeit we have more of it now post-incarnation since Christ gave us more details about his nature.
Christianity is meant to save everyone, down to the last fisherman, but it also has enough depth and metaphysics to keep the most erudite thinkers occupied forever...So there's no need to fumble in the dark mixing-and-matching plotinus with shankara and the emerald tablets, or whatever the heck people in this thread are trying to do jumbling disparate thought systems together.

Flee from all this gnostic prelest. Find a real center. Christ is the center of all.

>romantic love is all you need for salvation

>>12915350
this pasta is cold

>>12441318
>Einstein important to philosophy
>Freud
>darwin