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Originally Posted by Cheese
Rouge suggested some alternatives to your theories...did the Christian God train all of the other worldly religions "before" Christianity came to be?
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Since you seem to be attacking the semantics of what I am saying, let me point out that your understanding of the term Christian is obviously lacking. A Christian is a follower of Christ and his teachings. There was NO such thing as a Christian before Christ was born. So yes, using your terminology there were several religions that were around before Christianity. The God of the Jews is the same God as the Christians. The same commandments (in many cases) are contained in the Law of Moses as in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but many, such as the often quoted 'an eye for an eye' were changed. Jesus promoted forgiveness and not revenge.
If you want to argue about semantics and grammar, you can do it by yourself. I am not about to spend hours explaining myself or forming my explainations into bulletproof logical fortresses. I was trying to simplify a thousand years of theological debate and discovery into a 5 min post on the internet.
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
You claim our society is based on these rules and they are the rules of Christianity. Maybe they are just the rules of common sense?
*keep in mind that I don't claim to know anything about the Blackfoot, Maoris or Zeus. I'm just working on the assumption that any society that sticks around for any length of time must have accepted some version of these simple principles
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They have become norms (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28sociology%29 )of society, which I guess could be called common sense. Either way it was almost undoubtedly affected by a thousand years of Christian dominance in the western culture and it's development. Whatever affected what our society accepts as normal, it still falls closely in line with Christian values.