• مهما طال الليل@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

      Not a logical fallacy. Anyone can claim they worship Christ, but all religion have obligations that if you don’t follow you are clearly not a follower.

      No one can follow everything in the Bible. It contradicts itself all over the place.

      No one can follow “feed the hungry, heal the sick, and house the houseless”? I understand if it was some contradictory command, but this one clearly isn’t.

      I will give an example from Islam since I am more familiar with it. Alcohol is prohibited in Islam yet some people claim to be Muslims and consume it. Those people fall under one of two, no third:

      1. They know they are committing a sin and feel bad about it.
      2. Deny they are committing a sin.

      Those who are group 1, are still Muslims but sinners, but group 2 are out out out!

      So those who don’t to feed the hungry and deny the obligation, aren’t Christian.

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          4 months ago

          A charlatan. Jesus said faith alone isn’t enough.

          James 2:14-18 ESV What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

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            4 months ago

            “Charlatan” is not a religion.

            Again, what is the religion of someone who worships Christ?

            You can use the magic words all you want, but that’s not an answer.

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              4 months ago

              The term used in Islamic jurisprudence for someone who claims to believe in a religion but doesn’t follow it is munafiq i.e. hypocrite. I don’t know what it is called in Christianity/English. But since Islam borrows a lot of concepts, some literally such as shaheed being literal translation from Greek: martyr, and I have heard Christian Arabs use “munafiq”, I would think the Greek word for it will be related to hypocrisy.