My observation that you assume you possess the divine right to ARBITRARILY create a rule that Christians should not to follow Christ’s example, and the ability to discern where this rule applies, is more to the point.
I would assume that one should not assume that one possesses Christ’s authority to issue edicts about not doing this or that.
You can’t talk of progress in a conversation when you create special rules where you don’t question your own premises but your interlocuters. You don’t sit on a pedestal on your own authority. You quote actual authority or explain the premises that have been questioned.
Thankfully, I have only to follow Christ’s example. You are creating a rule based on your authority and I’m simply rubbishing it and letting you know neither I or anyone need to listen to an edict you issued on CAF about not following Christ’s example.
Christianity is true. That doesn’t make American founders conservative in 1776.
In a way, I agree with you. Modern Judaism and Christianity are both offsprings of Temple Judaism. However, when people speak of “Judaeo-Christian” they are referring to the values; and these are in may ways common, whichever Judaism you refer to.
Again, I agree in principle. Of course a Christian cannot coherently hold that there’s a special chosen people after the church’s founding. I just think the term Judaeo-Christian points at something different: i.e the values that are held to inhere, explicitly or implicitly in Judaism followed by Christianity. Modern Jews didn’t throw away those old values either. That’s all I’m saying.
