RE: A good reason not to believe in God
March 5, 2011 at 5:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2011 at 5:58 am by Captain Scarlet.)
(March 4, 2011 at 6:40 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Retraction ...get some hereCan you point out some decent articles explaining this duality of a fully man and fully god being? At the moment it appears to be a verbal conjuring trick to reconcile the impossible. The articles I have read (inc. Matt Slicks) mention that there is a man nature and god nature. Incomprehensible concepts to me, as although I can see how Jesus could have been fully human given his DNA heritage and social conditioning, I cannot figure out what it means to say someone is fully god and further to that also fully god and fully human. If this amounts to a human physical form and a god like immaterial form (call it a soul for a placeholder), arguments for the existence of a soul would need to be carried. My assumption based on evidence is that dualism of this kind is utterly false and debunked.
After discussing this with my Christian & mathematician wife and VOID earlier I now concede that to use percentages is some sort of abomination in mathematical terms. I shall no longer use the term 100% Man & God, because that is incorrect. You can only ever have 100% of anything.
Whilst Jesus the man was God on earth.. he was not also 100% God. He was, according to the doctrine I follow, fully God and fully man.
Like VOID brought up... we have a soul, and we are physical being. My soul is me, and my body is it's physical container. I'm my immortal soul, but my body is mortal.
So, in case you're interested: my answer to VOIDs question above is... My religious reasoning goes like this.... given a and b, a makes more sense than b, so I'll assume a. There's usually strong reason to assume a. VOID informs me that this is Bayesian reasoning.
As for atemporal existence. There is no repsonse on this. Merely typing atemporal into google and receiving hits does not suggest anyone has actually conceived of what it is (other than the word that is). I have found NO articles describing atemporal existence, whereas there are plenty describing the conceived attributes of god/s.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
