Remember, when you point your finger, there’s four pointing back at you.

I explained to you that I wasn’t accusing you directly or personally, and why I made the comment, and now you, in my estimation, are the one being “too blinded by stereotypes” to hear my explanation.

Then you go on to criticize getting into trivial arguments, somehow forgetting that no one held a gun to your head to join this discussion with your strongly dissenting opinion. Apparently, that response was because I had a response to your accusations that you couldn’t otherwise defend, so you felt the need to resort to an ad hominem to save face. So, better to imply that guys like me just want to argue about insignificant issues than admit maybe you responded too hastily.

And all because I made the suggestion that you and Blade Runner start your own thread over the topic (mostly because I see the topic of “the purpose of salvation” an important one, worthy of its own thread), which you decided was so wrong-headed that you felt the need to argue with me over in order it to keep an important topic as a sub-topic in the thread which you now claim is a relatively trivial pursuit. But somehow your arguing over which thread your more important sub-topic, which you feel should be the main topic, belonged in, wasn’t trivial because you obviously wouldn’t condescend to trivial, fruitless arguments...

Okay, your turn. Go ahead and tell me, in your view, all the things I’ve said or done wrong in this thread.


By the way, I’m actually beginning to see your point about the humanistic side of Prager’s purpose in his video. Whereas I initially attributed his position to “merely” his Jewish viewpoint, that alone is a little too simplistic. Almost like excusing an unruly child for being too young to understand, when in fact they should have known better at their age. For, by disallowing the New Testament extension to God’s word, his clinging to “old manna” is humanistic. Sorry I didn’t pick up on that earlier. I still don’t see that point as negating his points about why God is referred to in scripture as male, but it certainly casts his motives in a non-Christian (and therefore humanistic) light.

I put forth this question as a way to demonstrate how such careless comments such as Prager made about the “goals of the Bible” can be a serious threat to faith. It may seem innocuous, something only an uber A-type personality would find objectionable but he gets it all wrong--and as he does he undermines Christ's mission, as you will see when you present an answer. His is not a little, excusable mistake but apostasy, intentional or not. And he made those "goals of the Bible" the primary premise of his entire lecture!

T***h is the ultimate goal of all of our questions regarding Origin, Meaning, Morality and Destiny. Testing the questions follows two paths - Correspondence and Coherence.

Particular claims about t***h when tested against reality must correspond to reality. The questions we ask and the confluence of answers given must cohere, and these are narrowed down to logical consistency, empirical adequacy, and experiential relevance.

There are relative t***hs that can change in a heartbeat, then there is absolute T***h which is immutable and eternal. The former are subject to whim and circumstance, or what may be true today could easily change tomorrow. The latter, however, is most difficult to realize, and the guide to seeking and finding absolute T***h is the purpose of the Bible.

T***h is the ultimate goal of all of our questions regarding Origin, Meaning, Morality and Destiny. Testing the questions follows two paths - Correspondence and Coherence.

Particular claims about t***h when tested against reality must correspond to reality. The questions we ask and the confluence of answers given must cohere, and these are narrowed down to logical consistency, empirical adequacy, and experiential relevance.

There are relative t***hs that can change in a heartbeat, then there is absolute T***h which is immutable and eternal. The former are subject to whim and circumstance, or what may be true today could easily change tomorrow. The latter, however, is most difficult to realize, and the guide to seeking and finding absolute T***h is the purpose of the Bible.