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Sun worship? You seriously don't know how anti-sun worship Christianity is? Wow.

It's rather diffucult to imagine a more blatantly un-Christian thing to do than murdering someone because you're a sun-worshipper.

I just had an idea. Maybe Christians should not go to those countries to spread the Gospel.

Attempting to convert or inject a religion in someone's life is invasive and just plain impolite. People's beliefs are private and should not be meddled with.

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Well, the first part I agree with, but the last sentence is where I disagree. The key is to be open to possibilities, not tied down by perceived certainties. I acknowledge that I could be wrong, because history has shown this to be a possibility. I have, in the past, held opinions that I now would consider incorrect. People get too tied up in their opinions, are generally self-centered, and come to the conclusion that their was is the best way. I think that's silly.



Fallible - liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate



Well, then nearly everyone in this thread has made fallible assertions. I've come to terms with the seeming truth that not many people can "see" relativity.

Infallible - "I think murder is wrong"

Fallible - "Murder is wrong"



I reject your definition. I can conceive of someone who commits no sin, yet is not perfect. As such, I find that the two statements represent different concepts.



Correct. That is why I put "better than" in quotes. I am not saying it is representative of an absolute concept of "better", but trying to relay the feeling we have as individuals that one choice is preferable to another.



Not correct. I hold the opinion that murder is wrong, not because murder is wrong, but because I feel that to hold the opinion that murder is wrong is preferable to holding the opinion that murder is not wrong, for a multitude of reasons. I do not need to recognize a moral absolute to hold opinions.



Super not correct. Refer to the last response.



But my opinion does not need to assume this "absolute correctness". I can acknowledge the possibility of this, but it is not absolutely required.



Better to say - "they might be wrong, therefore they might be wrong".

sorry to pipe in there fallible can actually means capable of error (as in everyone), or liable to be false. It is not the same as not accurate. Infallible would be godlike.

I included the definition that fit what I was getting at. The full definition per my resource is...

Fallible - (of persons) liable to err, esp. in being deceived or mistaken.
- liable to be erroneous or false; not accurate: fallible information.
- Capable of making an error: Humans are only fallible.
- Tending or likely to be erroneous: fallible hypotheses.
- Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

Ok I have not heard the not accurate it doesn't really matter though.

...My apologies. Bible.

So many tyopgraphic errors!!

Well many of them are thankful and want to know. I want to go one day and help those poor people by bringing them food, clothes, first aid supplies, help them get clean water so spreading the Gospel isn't all they do.

yes, here is food but you gotta believe in this book first, ignore your own religion, we have food.

Thats not how it goes. You give them the food whether they believe or not because it is the right thing to do.

Are you serious?

holy bible, god, jesus christ

and what the hell is a Bilbe?

That sounds like welfare to me ... I think they should be required to convert to Christianity, or at least sing some hymns or say some prayers to earn the meal. It's like the old saying,"give a man a fish, he will eat for a day ... teach a man to fish, and he will deplete the fishery resource stocks."

Is that how you think Jesus would have felt about it?