Since it’s exam time for the young people in my household, here’s an essay question for those who claim that “all those who are saved [are] redeemed only through Christ”: And you know this, how?
Warning 1: Any answer based on an appeal to the authority of others, whether of today or of ancient times, will get a zero grade unless it offers support for the authority’s claim of knowledge, in terms that would be taken seriously by an intellectually-honest skeptic who isn’t already persuaded of the conclusion.
Warning 2: An answer that cites an ancient scriptural prediction, which by its terms was supposed to have been fulfilled thousands of years ago, must explain — again, in terms that would be taken seriously by our intellectually-honest skeptic — why reasonable people should not shrug their shoulders and dismiss the prediction as mistaken.
Warning 3: An answer that posits an explanation for reported phenomena (e.g., post-mortem ‘appearances’) must explore known possible alternatives and explain why the posited explanation is the compelling one.
(Copied from a comment I posted at TitusOneNine.)
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