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God sees - strongest argument for God.....
#31
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 5:27 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(October 15, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Chad32 Wrote: That just sounds like special pleading.

How?

When you say that yours is faith, but everyone else's is just belief, and you don't really have anything to back it up, it just sounds like an excuse. Whether the words meant something different a long time ago, or not, there's still the problem that you can't prove anything.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#32
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 5:49 pm)Chad32 Wrote:
(October 15, 2016 at 5:27 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: How?

When you say that yours is faith, but everyone else's is just belief, and you don't really have anything to back it up, it just sounds like an excuse. Whether the words meant something different a long time ago, or not, there's still the problem that you can't prove anything.
I never said that. There are many people that claim an experience that revealed something of God to them. Not saying their claims are correct that God actually revealed itself to them, just that's the actual meaning/usage conveyed in the bible. It is not created by humans. To say "just have faith" is a non sequitur.

What subjective experience can you prove?
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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#33
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
Quote:4. All spiritual identities need an accurate perception.

Until you can demonstrate (or at the very least, convincingly argue) that there are such things as 'spiritual identities' in the first place, you can't really claim that they 'need' anything, let alone accurate perception.

'All grimuplicates need raspberry double fudge butter almond walnut ripple ice cream'. What's a grimuplicate, you ask? Don't bother me while I'm pontificating.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#34
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
MK, I'd like to play, but I just can't.

Still good to have you back.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#35
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
Quote:Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Quote:"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."

-- Mark Twain


If you ask me, Twain beats your silly bible to a bloody pulp.
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#36
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 8:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Quote:"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."

-- Mark Twain


If you ask me, Twain beats your silly bible to a bloody pulp.
Then the telephone game wins again. Have fun with meaningless, nonfunctional gibberish.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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#37
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 5:07 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(October 15, 2016 at 4:24 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Faith is not substantive, or evidence. Otherwise we'd have to believe that every god of every actiuve religion exists, because people today have faith in them. Or their interpretation of them.
The way the word is current used/abused and practiced is not functionally different than belief. It's actual function has been lost/obscured to the public mind. If their belief system is based on the bible, it state's quite clearly in several places that faith is a gift of God, from God, and it is not created by man.

And those of us who don't have a belief system based on the bible use what's called a "dictionary", lol.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

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#38
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 9:16 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(October 15, 2016 at 5:07 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: The way the word is current used/abused and practiced is not functionally different than belief. It's actual function has been lost/obscured to the public mind. If their belief system is based on the bible, it state's quite clearly in several places that faith is a gift of God, from God, and it is not created by man.

And those of us who don't have a belief system based on the bible use what's called a "dictionary", lol.
When the meanings of words change over time, the operative function is lost on the human mind. Dictonaries do not define words, the list current usage.

Dictionaries now list a "definition" for literally that means the exact opposite of literal.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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#39
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 1:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I mean your value, what you are, your inner beauty, your level in the good or evil scale, where you are in that, exact value, exists.  What you are exists independent of subjective judgment.

"Value," "inner beauty," "your level in the good and evil scale" are all value judgments.  I believe that value judgments are subjective at their core, although the judgments may be informed by objective facts such as physical appearance or observed behaviours.
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#40
RE: God sees - strongest argument for God.....
(October 15, 2016 at 8:50 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:
(October 15, 2016 at 8:44 pm)Minimalist Wrote: If you ask me, Twain beats your silly bible to a bloody pulp.
Then the telephone game wins again.  Have fun with meaningless, nonfunctional gibberish.

Odd.  That's exactly how I feel about your fucking bible..... and all other so-called holy books.  I wouldn't want you to feel "special."
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