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Mixing linen with wool......Mosaic law banning this.... Sceptics have long questioned this law, maybe hoping that their questions might confound the other 612, maybe? ;) Linen was produced from the flax plant, I believe, and the shredding down of flax stems though several grades until the...

Dickens wrote about the Church Courts and they were quite rotten with corruption, you know. His descriptions were quite shocking. Can you show me any mentions by Bahauallah about Baha'i majority countries being controlled by non Bahá'ís?

Special Courts for Bahá'ís? Have those, but the Baha'i Criminal laws and Bahai sentencing of offenders can't ever be introduced...these were just ideas for thought? As long as all Baha'i Courts have no power and the nations' legal systems can be supreme in all final judgements......no...

Yes, but back then the Israelites needed to grow fast! Mosaic laws were there for survival of countries at that time. Many Christians have quoted Mosaic laws at me when they fiund it to be useful to them. Many of the old laws are not so important now, such as banning gays or gay marriage, etc...

The local assemblies would surely have to administer local affairs, inheritances, misdemeanours........everything! If not, then who (,for instance) would be responsible for, say, the fire brigade, local police, courts etc etc? Such issues couldn't be controlled from a national house! If a...

Hi Sen....... In a Baha'i World when all control would be from the local, national and universal houses of justice could 'church' and 'state' be separated? The above Houses would be responsible for delivering all control, justice, practices etc from themselves, wouldn't they?

For sure. To 'miss the mark' thousands of years ago could mean failure, which would probably lead to serious sickness or death. Even the laws to promote unity and cohesion within the people had to be obeyed.......strictly. Sadly, failure hit the mark could only lead to failure of the nation...

Hello all........ This thread is about 'Sin'. These are my opinions about what sin is, and they're going to differ markedly from the Christian idea, for sure! There were 613 Mosaic laws and if they had all been kept by any nation then that would have secured the nation in safety, strength...

Big catches of fish? Meh..... Not so hard for a bright man like Jesus to work out. Suppose that the boatmen-disciples sent young followers out with baskets to collect food scraps. These could be scattered over water to attract fish before the boatmen circled that area with their nets. Job...

Fair enough! I was wrong to suggest that.:)

Study of the gospels over time leading to such decisions. Conviction and certitude can't really be claimed after so long, and with such varying accounts. But Jesus didn't seem to be the least interested in any kinds of sacrifice, simulated cannibalism etc. Whilst I do think that Jesus the man...

I believe that nonsense was built up by the young church. Although the gospels do include Jesus in that primitive tradition I believe that this was written in to his story 'after the fact'.

Again....... The RC bible differs not much from other bibles. So why rubbish that bible... the base for Western Christianity.

That's a very weak challenge, isn't it? Surely a fallacy is a falseness that can be shown? The OP did try to explain each of its criticisms, I guess...(I couldn't open the whole list up.)

I haven't seen him for some time but there's a man who lives rough and sometimes walk around Canterbury UK calling out his messages about life. I spoke with him once and he told me that he was/is a messenger from God. 'From God?' I replied. 'Absolutely! Know that I am ordained by almighty...

Yes, you could if you want to get involved with a religious zealot's responses. Sometimes I will just tell a person that I hear them if I don't believe that they want to hear me.

When your enemies criticise you, this doesn't automatically mean that they are lying, you know. The Baptist heard about those rumours 100 miles away. He was worried by that, but there was no need for him to be, imo. He DID like to take his wine and food with people that had poor reputations and...

I don't need anything from any churches, Thomas. But the RC Church was one of the earliest churches from which most of Christianity would become. The RC bible differs not that much from other Christian bibles.

OK, so no fallacy found within that. You were telling us that all the criticism mentioned in the article were or had fallacies. I couldn't open the article for some reason and so I picked the first criticism which I could see shown on the OP, but I now wonder what was so wrong with all the...

Ignorance indeed. Any example would help. You mentioned that all 14 criticisms mentioned in the OP were/are 'based on fallacies'. Please could you show such a fallacy in the criticism that religion is rooted in fear? I cannot understand what is so false within the criticism. In Christianity...