Michael S. Pearl's latest activity
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.All that fatuous and excessive verbiage pretending to be an argument is dispensed with below and easily. 1. The claim is NOT that...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.According to Galatians 1:11, Paul says "I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin."...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.That does not even begin to establish that Paul's message was not divinely inspired. There is a distinction between a message and any...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.In order to eliminate the possibility of there having been divine inspiration, it would be necessary to establish that there is nothing...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.False. And that was addressed previously.
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Right. So, what is the supposed problem? To reiterate: If there is a problem with the "not the work of man" phrase, it rests with the...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.So, instead of understanding gospel as good tale, good story, or good news, and instead of understanding gospel as a tale or story or...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread The Case for Christianity.You are right! And that philosophical charity can be an aspect of a still greater charity distinguishable as ethical charity. This...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.What is it that makes the apparent contradiction even apparent? One possible explanation can be found in an earlier remark: By that...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Okay. You mean(t) that some Jews in the past were - and some Jews even today are - parochial, as in insular. That's true. It is also...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Are?!?!?! Seriously? Parochial as in insular? As in keeping themselves apart? Well, if that is what you cannot help but think, so be it...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.That "gospel I preached" is, as Politesse says, the "message I preached", and that message is not the words used but, rather, an...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.The argument, such as it is, seems to presume that any divinely inspired thinking or understanding must of necessity never employ or...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Learner said, “Paul was an educated man. It would be quite natural for him to have dialogue from a philosophy base to the educated , or...
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MMichael S. Pearl replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.One other thing: if the Golden Rule issue is irrelevant, then it would have been better to refrain from introducing it.