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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.
Nimzo Religion 12 2505 May 20, 2011 at 8:02 am
    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...
Nimzo Religion 12 2505 May 20, 2011 at 7:50 am
    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...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm
    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 ...
Nimzo Religion 35 6627 May 19, 2011 at 3:23 pm
    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...
Nimzo Religion 35 6627 May 19, 2011 at 3:03 pm
    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 - ...
Nimzo Religion 35 6627 May 19, 2011 at 2:56 pm
    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. FaithNo...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 19, 2011 at 7:52 am
    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...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 19, 2011 at 6:15 am
    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 ...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 18, 2011 at 6:28 pm
    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...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 18, 2011 at 6:16 pm
    Thread: Lurker..mostly...
Post: RE: Lurker..mostly...

I salute you icepigs. :salute: May your Bacon never Thaw.
Nimzo Introductions 12 2170 May 18, 2011 at 6:11 pm
    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...
Nimzo Religion 35 6627 May 18, 2011 at 5:55 pm
    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...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 18, 2011 at 5:43 pm
    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 ...
Nimzo Philosophy 45 13739 May 18, 2011 at 2:40 pm
    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. ...
Nimzo Philosophy 2 1347 May 18, 2011 at 2:28 pm
    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"....
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 18, 2011 at 2:23 pm
    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.
Nimzo Religion 18 9393 May 18, 2011 at 2:06 pm
    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.
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 18, 2011 at 2:00 pm
    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 - ...
Nimzo Philosophy 2 1347 May 18, 2011 at 1:54 pm
    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...
Nimzo Christianity 107 31738 May 18, 2011 at 1:41 pm