How to prove any point to a Christian


If you want to prove that pigs should fly (and obviously can, if they should, for God is omni-benevolent), All you need to do is the following:

Look in the Old testament for a verse that deals with the subject. If it says that pigs should fly, you have your proof there, for the word of God is eternal. If it says that pigs shouldn't fly, then you say "That is the old testament, and has to do with the law which was superseded by JC our LORD, and is therefore irrelevant." You can elaborate about the apparent contradiction by continuing: "In truth, pigs were forbidden to fly only out of the limited spiritual state of the people [or pigs, take your pick] before Christ, but now that we are blessed by the grace of the Son-of-God obviously it is even more spiritual for pigs to fly". For extra effect, you can break into something like: "And I say PRAISE JESUS! Haleluja!", preferably moving into song....

The result will probably be the First-Church-of-Christ-the-Pig-Kiter, preferably "Inc.", and you will become it's rich Guru (sorry, Pastor). Even better than stock in Nasdaq in 1999. Ron Hubbard did it, you can too!

On a more serious note, Arguments on religion are very difficult when you do not have authoritative texts, which you accept completely without resort to "Post-JC" and "Pre-JC" theology.

Another point: Most arguments you will see are based on an English translation of the Bible, that the author takes to be authoritative. Translations are often edited (sorry, I did not make them). Worse, some arguments are based on an "authoritative" text, and soon after leaning so heavily on a particular translation the author proceeds to attack the very accuracy of the translation. For this crime I sentence the author of any such argument to 4 years of Hebrew and Greek in the nearest Catholic closed monastery.

Enough said of that subject.