Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: June 18, 2024, 8:12 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
You're beginning to sound like a used car salesman, Drich.

(May 24, 2016 at 10:02 am)Drich Wrote:
(May 23, 2016 at 1:43 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Your interpretation of Genesis 2 is enough to land you firmly in crackpot territory.
Why? Is it because I am simply reading what is on page and stopping with what is on page. Not filtering it first through the traditional church view?

You're stopping at what's on the page is one problem. There's ANE literary traditions which you fail to take into account, for one. Reading the passages in Genesis 2 it becomes clear how each segment of Genesis 2 is connected with some variant of the Hebrew word for 'and'. This concatenation of events is not an indicator that they all happened contemporaneously, but that they form a series of events, starting I guess you can say on day 3, but not limited to day 3. You're no bible scholar, Drich. Others have looked at the Hebrew for millennia and come away with different answers. I trust them a whole lot more than your reading of English "Easy To Read" versions of the bible.

Then there's the problem of Genesis 1:26 which indicates that God made Adam (Hebrew for man) on day 6. How do you reconcile that with Adam being supposedly created on day 3 in Genesis 2?

(May 24, 2016 at 10:02 am)Drich Wrote:
Quote:Sure, and when the promise is shown to be empty, you'll be there to blame the disappointed.  You're a true Christian.
I honestly do not know one person who A/S/K the God of the bible (not some Idol they themselves spun up) and was disappointed. So there's that.

Clever girl, the way you phrase that. How many do you personally know who came to God through A/S/K? Perhaps the ones who didn't simply didn't share it with you.
[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]
Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe. - by Angrboda - May 24, 2016 at 11:57 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  What do you believe in that hasnt been proven to exist? goombah111 197 25449 March 5, 2021 at 6:47 am
Last Post: arewethereyet
  If there is a God(s) it/they clearly don't want us to believe in them, no? Duty 12 1533 April 5, 2020 at 8:36 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Why you all need others, to believe? LastPoet 24 4137 December 26, 2019 at 10:09 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Ways to Get Into Heaven! Or Whatever You Believe in! Jade-Green Stone 14 2626 January 24, 2019 at 2:54 pm
Last Post: deanabiepepler
  List of reasons to believe God exists? henryp 428 87367 January 21, 2018 at 2:56 am
Last Post: Abaddon_ire
  Look i don't really care if you believe or don't believe Ronia 20 8059 August 25, 2017 at 4:28 am
Last Post: ignoramus
  People assuming you believe in a God Der/die AtheistIn 35 10532 July 19, 2017 at 10:24 am
Last Post: Astonished
  Don't you just love the hypocrisy of religion. ignoramus 86 22528 July 16, 2017 at 7:04 am
Last Post: Der/die AtheistIn
  Theists: What is the most compelling argument you have heard for Atheism? PETE_ROSE 455 106856 April 5, 2017 at 12:34 pm
Last Post: RoadRunner79
  Atheists, what are the most convincing theist arguments you heard of? SuperSentient 169 23510 April 1, 2017 at 9:43 pm
Last Post: Neo-Scholastic



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)