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Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?

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Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 24, 2013 at 9:20 am
Drich destroyed the Tyre argument just like God destroyed Tyre.
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 9:22 am
(September 24, 2013 at 9:20 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Drich destroyed the Tyre argument just like God destroyed Tyre.
the same Tyre that was established in 2750 BC and still had over 200,000 people living in it above the ocean?
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 10:13 am
That's the point. The Tyre argument has been destroyed exactly like Tyre itself wasn't.
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#94
RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 11:42 am
oh then my apologies. I should've been more thorough in reading past posts
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#95
RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 11:56 am
Don't worry about it. Tyre comes up every few months because the jesus freaks can't bear the thought that their "god" fucked up.

I don't think these things were ever intended to be "prophecies." The writers would have had to be the stupidest bastards on earth to write that Nebuchadnezzar would destroy Tyre after he failed to do so! They seem much more like "execration texts" in which some bozo implores the gods - or god but that is far from certain at this time - to punish his enemies.

Rarely worked because there were no fucking gods....or god.
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September 26, 2013 at 12:04 pm
I expect them to say something like, "How do you know God won't destroy Tyre at some point in the future?"
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:06 pm
At some point the sun will expand and destroy the earth. Humans will be long gone.

If the assholes want to carry it out that far then maybe they are right.... as long as the sun is "god."
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September 26, 2013 at 12:07 pm
(September 23, 2013 at 9:28 am)Drich Wrote: This very arguement was destroyed months ago minnie what are you doing?

Rebuilding it!
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September 26, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Drippy suffers from delusions of competency. Pay him no mind.
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RE: Why is Tyre Still Here When God Said it Would Sink Under the Waves?
September 26, 2013 at 12:15 pm
I do like the argument he used in that other thread, which can be distilled to "when he said he'd destroy Tyre, he meant that he'd destroy Tyre, not that he'd destroy Tyre." Well, shit, when you put it that way...
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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