How did you create 3 posts in 10 minutes?
I have no idea what your response means.
What do you think of the notion of universal reconciliation/salvation?
I deny it completely, if it did exist the God that facilitated it would be unjust.
I'll wager my eternal soul that Christianity is not the true religion. Moreover, on your definition of Christianity, at least, I already have by rejecting Christianity, surely?
Yes you are is my response to both points.
No it doesn't. On your definition of who/what God is and who/what Satan is, maybe. But there are other definitions.
No is doesn't what?
Agreed. But I am not saying that.
You have repeatedly said things that require that belief to justify. Both God's colocation with ourselves and universal redemption can only be relevant if our being related to a thing means we are in unity with it.
Whilst 3 billion is technically 'billions', most people would associate 'billions' with a fair few more than just 3 billion!
Not when it concerns human population.
Also, do you have a quote for that figure?
It isn't worth looking up since for example Luther's primary foundation for Protestantism is based on the born again experience, and Catholicism includes the belief but unjustly adds to it. I was a prayer councilor for years and saw about an 80% rate of those who claim to be Christian doing so based on being born again. So I usually use 50% of the current population of Christians and extrapolate that back 2000 years. So I am being very conservative. I actually have quoted studies in the past, you can look them up if you want but I don't have time currently.
It might be worth you speaking to a 'mainstream' Hindu (whatever that is!).
I have debated at least half a dozen. We usually spend our time talking about the caste system. However I almost always ask them if they could get one of their "enlightened" members to debate me. So far they have produced zero.
Okay, setting Hinduism aside, what about Sikh beliefs on union with the Divine?
I have never met nor debated a Sikh. There have been thousands of belief systems in the history of humanity, I could never hope to know them all. Why don't you post quotes from their holy texts on the subject?
You talk like that is a good thing!
Of course the sacrifice on one's comfort, money, or even their life in the service of others is a good thing. We build museums for, write books about, and give medals to individuals who put others needs ahead of their own. You are on the ragged edge of more subject areas than any human I have ever talked to and since I traveled the world while in the Navy and have over 13,000 debates that is quite a lot of people.
A simplistic comparison between revealed texts.
I'm not really in the business of quoting scripture (my faith rests on my personal experience of God, not some book), but since you ask, try Surah 112.
Having an experience with God is not what the Quran says makes you a Muslim. To become a Muslim you must merely give consent to the propositions that God is one, and his Muhammad is his prophet. You then must adhere to a bunch of miscellaneous propitiations. You basically must earn your way to God.
I have debated dozens upon dozens of Muslims, but your posts are unlike any of them. At least I now know what world view you are bound by.
Mainstream Islaam doesn't. But there have always been Muslims who believe in reincarnation amongst the Sufis and some so-called heretical Shi'a groups.
I have never denied that strange fringe groups (cults or heretics) exist within all religions.
1. So you can't defend re-incarnation within the texts of your own faith.
2. You can't show that it is even consistent with it's own stated purpose.
3. You couldn't show me any evidence for it's existence.
You still have 100% of your work left before you.
On what basis do you make this claim?
In this post you said you were a Muslim yet you have not posted any mainstream Islamic viewpoints you adhere to.
What you posted was not a challenge to anything I have claimed.
Then you ought to be aware of the FACT that the only thing we know for a certainty is that we exist. Everything else has a varying degree of uncertainty depending on the claim.
I never said that. I only said that Satan is winning for now.
In my belief system (for those who trust in Christ) Satan is utterly defeated. In fact he has been defeated concerning everyone but God's total victory doesn't get applied without faith. So Yahweh is greater that Allah, therefor Allah can't be the greatest conceivable being, and therefor not God.
So your God has already defeated Satan?
Yes, but we have to accept that victory through Christ before it is applied.
I have mountains of subjective evidence, but that won't obviously persuade you. But that matters not to me.
Just because a claim is subjective doesn't mean it isn't persuasive. It depends on the claim, but a lack of even subjective evidence (what you have supplied) has zero persuasive capacity.
Your opinion, not objective fact.
It is my opinion but it may also be objective fact.
If you don't mind the question, where are you from (in general)?