(April 11, 2014 at 11:49 am)Crossless1 Wrote: Oh, look! Someone has broken out the topical Bible.
In fairness, I did ask him for chapter and verse.
For me, I'm trying to take it in baby steps.
Step 1: "Learn how to crawl" Chapter and verse please so I know you're at least not making it up as you go along (i.e. his assertions that Satan spoke through the snake in Genesis).
Step 2: "Learn how to walk" Make sure your views are logically consistent so it rises to the level of a plausible hypothesis (i.e. why would a god need to sacrifice himself to convince himself to change a rule he made in the first place?)
Step 3: "Learn how to run and jump and dance" OK, now prove it.
You see, we're so used to operating around step 3 and forming our views according to the evidence. He hasn't developed those thinking muscles yet. It's like asking a newborn baby to start running about.
Baby steps.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
