Nope. God wants us all to have a Christian mindset. See, the Great Commission.
Only by your understanding, which is the point you don't seem to grasp. Jews, Hindus and even O'Darby are entitled to their understandings. You don't get to decide Truth for everyone else. The fact that you assert your Truth in the name of God as you understand him doesn't alter this fact - it's your understanding of God and your Truth.
Nope. Religion is man's attempt to reach God. Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. Then and now.
Oh, Lord, I was parroting this line when I was a Campus Crusade newbie 54 years ago. OK, fine, but this still your understanding of Truth. The ontological Reality, none of us really knows.
Odd line to draw. Only if every Christian is a scientist do you give Christians, as a group, credit?
As I implied, the better line to draw is:
Q. Among all of humanity, who most advanced learning through the centuries?
A. Christians
You are missing the entire point. I guarantee you, I have read as much as you about the massive contributions of Christianity (and Islam, perhaps surprisingly) to Western civilization and science. Your "better line to draw" has nothing to do with what I am talking about. The fact is, multiple scholarly and scientific disciplines pose serious challenges to bibliolatry and conservative/evangelical Christianity. Many - and indeed most - Christians avoid those disciplines as though they were demonic.
No wonder you were banned from CyB.
And proud of it! I'll put my "single-minded commitment to God" up against yours any day and spot you 100 good deeds to start. Every serious Christian theologian recognizes that an element of doubt is part and parcel of faith. You appear to be living in that la-la land I call "pretend Christianity."
Recently, I was made aware of the difference between being a skeptic from being a cynic. A believer with doubts is fundamentally different from an agnostic who goes where the winds and waves take him.
For fellowship, I'm totally open to strengthening a fellow believer with doubts.
You misunderstand agnosticism. A true agnostic says he is not able to reach a conviction about religious claims on the basis of the available evidence and arguments and has reached a conviction that such a conviction is not possible. He doesn't "go where the winds and waves take him."
A believer such as myself has reached convictions but is sufficiently rational to acknowledge that the Truth about Ultimate Ontological Reality cannot be known. Ergo, I hold the convictions I do while rationally acknowledging that anything from Young Earth Christian Fundamentalist to Materialist Atheist Fundamentalism might be closer to Ultimate Ontological Reality.
Your fundamental (no pun intended) problem, it seems to me, is that you live in the la-la land of Pretend Christianity and actually seem to think that you get to vote on who is or isn't a Christian and whose religious beliefs are or are not True.
