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TRUTH: GROUND RULES FOR THE DEBATE

TRUTH: GROUND RULES FOR THE DEBATE. GROUND RULES …. “ Christians believe that they have the absolute truth that everyone else has to believe – or else. That attitude endangers everyone’s freedom.” - Young Brooklyn artist. GROUND RULES ….

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TRUTH: GROUND RULES FOR THE DEBATE

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  1. TRUTH: GROUND RULES FOR THE DEBATE

  2. GROUND RULES … “Christians believe that they have the absolute truth that everyone else has to believe – or else. That attitude endangers everyone’s freedom.” - Young Brooklyn artist

  3. GROUND RULES … “Christianity is the leveler of the human race, the breaker of man’s will to dare and to do … an iron net, a straight-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.” - Social Activist Emma Goldman

  4. THE LOVE OF TARGET • Competing Absolutes • Postmodern Argument: “Personal experience & intuition determine truth and conduct for each person.”

  5. THE LOVE OF TARGET • Competing Absolutes • Postmodern Argument: • Pluralism Argument: “Religious belief is too culturally & historically conditioned to be truth.”

  6. THE LOVE OF TARGET • Competing Absolutes • Postmodern Argument: • Pluralism Argument: • Power Argument: “History is written by the winners who write the history books – books which glorify their own cause.”

  7. THE LOVE OF TARGET • Competing Absolutes • Christianity’s Adaptability

  8. THE LOVE OF TARGET • Competing Absolutes • Christianity’s Adaptability “Cultural diversity was built into the Christian faith … in Acts 15, which declared that the new Gentile Christians didn’t have to enter Jewish culture … The converts had to work out a Hellenistic way of being a Christian.” - Historian Andrew Walls

  9. THE LOVE OF TARGET • Competing Absolutes • Christianity’s Adaptability • Christianity's Absolutes • Common Head • Common Hope

  10. 90% IS IN DELIVERY • Command for Gentleness • Command for Reverence “What community has beliefs that lead its members to treat persons with love and respect – to serve them and meet their needs?”

  11. 90% IS IN DELIVERY • Command for Gentleness • Command for Reverence “What community’s beliefs lead it to demonize and attack those who violate their boundaries rather than treating them with kindness and humility?”

  12. TRUTH: GROUND RULES FOR THE DEBATE

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