False set up/logic premise, which is quite similar to your first premise.
Lamp.
Not light bulb/candle/torch/headlight/etc.
Notice something about all the lamps. They aren't the light. They carry the light.
This is about where you go throughout the denunciation. You start with the assumption it's like other stuff, when it's not. If your headlight dies, do you grab a flashlight to replace it? Of course not, because they aren't the same things and don't function the same. If you're looking at a new home, is the first place you go to the outdoor's section of a store to look at tents? Of course not, because a tent isn't the same thing as "new home."
In like fashion, stop comparing "Christian" to Hindu, Islamic, and everything else out there.
When you're ready to see it as something specific -- someone specific -- feel free to ask.
As it stands, this sounds like a canned speech.
Lamp.
Not light bulb/candle/torch/headlight/etc.
Notice something about all the lamps. They aren't the light. They carry the light.
This is about where you go throughout the denunciation. You start with the assumption it's like other stuff, when it's not. If your headlight dies, do you grab a flashlight to replace it? Of course not, because they aren't the same things and don't function the same. If you're looking at a new home, is the first place you go to the outdoor's section of a store to look at tents? Of course not, because a tent isn't the same thing as "new home."
In like fashion, stop comparing "Christian" to Hindu, Islamic, and everything else out there.
When you're ready to see it as something specific -- someone specific -- feel free to ask.
As it stands, this sounds like a canned speech.
When did I suggest that lamps are themselves the light? Indeed they "carry" the light, but Jesus is telling you that "you" are that very light. So your body is carrying your own light; how is this in any way false logic/premise?
To clarify; your body is simply an accumulation you have gathered from the planet. If you eat something, it becomes human body within a few hours. Similarly, your mind is an accumulation based on whatever you have become identified with. These things, while you have collected them, can be "yours" ie. your body, but they can never be you ie. the "light" which is carried through them. Of course they are not the same.
A lamp is a vessel. Your body is a vessel. Light is your own perception (as it was used in those days). Your perception is the very light of the world. If your perception is "evil", the world will in kind become dark. If your perception is "good", the world will in kind become light.
This is a simple analogy is it not? How could one possibly confuse this?
relatively depending on what God has revealed to a person and if a person is gullible and arrogant they will dismiss The Bible as dogma and unscientific, what a big mistake.