But they are guaranteed to know and teach the Truth. Christ promised it and God does not lie. They are ordained by Christ, through the unbroken chain of the Apostles.
I could have been raised in a Christian/Muslim household because my mother was Christian and my father was Muslim (each devoted to their respected religion). In such a situation, I might have been culturally-conditioned and exposed equally to both viewpoints. (This is not very difficult to imagine. The problem is that you don’t apparently have much of an imagination.)Counterpoint:
No, you aren’t. Because it wasn’t a real-life example, as became clear very quickly. In real-life examples, there are specific circumstances that lead people into a “dilemma”–there isn’t just an abstract “dilemma.”
I have already substantiated this claim.Counterpoint:
You haven’t substantiated this. You have just asserted it.
I was raised a Catholic. So, I was culturally-conditioned to believe in the Catholic worldview. But when I came of age, I abandoned that view because I found it to be intellectually untenable.
It has been undergoing critical evaluation since it was first written, almost 2,000 years of criticism now. We don’t need to view link. We have our own Theologians.
It has nothing to do with having an imagination or not. It has to do with the abstract, arid nature of your supposed “dilemma.” If you had been raised in a mixed Christian-Muslim environment, you would have had specific experiences of different kinds with both traditions.
Two Wikipedia articles? Come on. Be serious. Wikipedia is fine for basic facts, but as a basis for saying that the Bible and the Qur’an have exactly equal evidence in their favor?
Now we finally get some honesty. Islam has nothing to do with it at all.
If I had been raised Christian/Muslim, I would have experienced the very dilemma I posed in the OP of this thread. You either get that or you don’t.
As I have argued in another thread, religious believers are not willing to subject their scriptures to the same scrutiny they subject the scriptures of other religions.
But you would have specifics to flesh it out. You either get that or you don’t.
Occasionally it becomes a strong suspicion regarding some members who join, that they have no real questions but have made up their minds, and only pose questions to cause mischief where they can. They may even include emotive elements as bait. They reject anything that does not agree with their hypothesis, even logical explanations, and just pull out something, a sentence or a phrase that side-skirts all that has been explained, ignoring all else that does not supports their hypothesis. 
Those who do so, know that this is their purpose. If I suspect it is the case I generally prefer not to engage. Is this appropriate, I wonder!I have already explained why. It’s intellectually untenable. Most, if not all, religions are.
There’s only a dilemma because it’s set up to be a dilemma.
Materialism, scepticism, cynicism, hedonism, egoism, relativism, scientism, Darwinism and nihilism are all intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually untenable…
It is better to beat them at their own game by exposing their inconsistency and absurdity!An irrelevant observation?
Are you willing to subject your philosophy to any form of scrutiny?
Can you explain why your present view is intellectually tenable?
I would think as a Jew you would reject both the Christian view and Muslim view of Jesus.There’s only a dilemma because it’s set up to be a dilemma.
Of course, being a Jew, I would say that.
I don’t subscribe to any of those “isms.”
Exactly, so there’s no dilemma.
What do you subscribe to?
We get it but it is not a dilemma for Catholics. We are trying to explain to you that God did not leave us orphans, we do have an infallible source of truth. Pray for faith.