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Thread: What is God?
Post: RE: What is God?
(May 20, 2011 at 7:58 am)Zen Badger Wrote: That was an interesting monologue for an entity you can't even prove the existence of.I don't believe in an "entity", but thank you for the comment.
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May 20, 2011 at 8:02 am |
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Thread: What is God?
Post: RE: What is God?
God is not a concept, or an idea, but a Person. He is not defined by the attributes that He has, but they are defined by Who He is. The question "What is God" assumes that there are attributes which... |
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May 20, 2011 at 7:50 am |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 19, 2011 at 3:31 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: If A created everything and B exists, then A created B.Firstly, that is not a Law of Logic, but a syllogism. Secondly, it is a non-sequitur because you a... |
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May 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm |
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Thread: Gamaliel Never Existed
Post: RE: Gamaliel Never Existed
(May 19, 2011 at 3:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes...but then I'm not the one professing "belief" in a dead jew coming back to life on the basis of them, am I?No, you are the one professing belief that ... |
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May 19, 2011 at 3:23 pm |
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Thread: Gamaliel Never Existed
Post: RE: Gamaliel Never Existed
(May 19, 2011 at 2:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Nor any against for that matter, except the rantings of believers who had an obvious agenda.The fact that you deem them to be "rantings" displays your obvi... |
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May 19, 2011 at 3:03 pm |
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Thread: Gamaliel Never Existed
Post: RE: Gamaliel Never Existed
At this point, I think I'd better come clean so that those people who have been reading this thread see the point of it. I do not believe almost anything of the posts I have written in this thread - ... |
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May 19, 2011 at 2:56 pm |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 19, 2011 at 6:35 am)FaithNoMore Wrote: Logic dictates nothing can fall outside of my assertion. Either refute it or qut replying.Not according to any Law of Logic that I am aware of.
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May 19, 2011 at 7:52 am |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 18, 2011 at 6:42 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Let's assume what you've been saying is right, then these are the two knowns. God created everything, and evil exists. There are only three ways this is... |
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May 19, 2011 at 6:15 am |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 18, 2011 at 6:26 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Then propose something that doesn't fit in there.You are the one who made the claim that there are only three options - please demonstrate that these are ... |
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May 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Either God did create evil, he saw evil as a consequence of his creation and did nothing about it, or his 'perfect' creations were deeply flawed.False tri... |
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May 18, 2011 at 6:16 pm |
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Thread: Lurker..mostly...
Post: RE: Lurker..mostly...
I salute you icepigs. :salute:
May your Bacon never Thaw. |
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May 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm |
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Thread: Gamaliel Never Existed
Post: RE: Gamaliel Never Existed
(May 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I agree that Criteria of Embarrassment has to be applied with caution but that does not discredit it. In far too many cases people apply it in the sense o... |
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May 18, 2011 at 5:55 pm |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 18, 2011 at 2:57 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I believe that "evil" and "sin" are listed as nouns in the dictionary. But if you claim that sin isn't a thing, then it must not exist. Which I agre... |
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May 18, 2011 at 5:43 pm |
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Thread: Nihilism
Post: RE: Nihilism
(May 18, 2011 at 2:34 pm)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: And yet it has worth to me and meaning to me, therefore it is neither worthless or meaningless (As it possess both worth and meaning).That is ... |
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May 18, 2011 at 2:40 pm |
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Thread: William Rowe vs. Evolutionary Universalism
Post: RE: William Rowe vs. Evolutionary Universalism
(May 18, 2011 at 2:18 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Never heard of Rowe's argument before, but yeah, it is a pretty bad argument. I don't see how you can get to (2) from (1). It seems a complete non-sequitur. ... |
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May 18, 2011 at 2:28 pm |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
(May 18, 2011 at 2:09 pm)Skipper Wrote: So this verse is only discussing physical things?
Is there any reason other than warping the context of the verse that you think this?It just says "things".... |
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May 18, 2011 at 2:23 pm |
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Thread: God brings peace?
Post: RE: God brings peace?
(May 18, 2011 at 2:04 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: The German phrase Gott mit uns means "God with us", not God brings peace.I don't think Gawdzilla ever said it did. |
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May 18, 2011 at 2:06 pm |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
Evil and sin are not "things". Evil is a moral property of things; sin (in general) is a state of affairs that things can be in, or (in particular) an act which things can perform. |
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May 18, 2011 at 2:00 pm |
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Thread: William Rowe vs. Evolutionary Universalism
Post: William Rowe vs. Evolutionary Universalism
I came across an interesting blog post which compares Rowe's evidential argument against naturalism to an anti-evolutionary argument of the same form. I think the author (Alexander Pruss) is right - ... |
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May 18, 2011 at 1:54 pm |
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Thread: Proverbs 16:4
Post: RE: Proverbs 16:4
"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4
Quote:God created all things.
Yes, the text says this.
Quote:God created me.
Yes, this is implie... |
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May 18, 2011 at 1:41 pm |