(June 14, 2011 at 1:00 am)eric209 Wrote: Prove it? I'm not the one claiming it happend.
Uh... what? Thanks for putting your reading comprehension skills on public display. Notice that I did not ask you to prove it happened. That was not your claim. It is a little weird that I have to remind you what your own claim was, but you said that "the very nature of resurrection is illogical." That, sir, is the claim I asked you to prove.
I am very familiar with logic. If you are too, then please prove that the nature of resurrection is illogical.
eric209 Wrote:You seem to be giving God attributes of your own design.
Then this simply reveals more about your comprehension skills, since I did nothing of the sort (i.e., omnipotence is not something I came up with).
eric209 Wrote:Our understanding of logic obviously does not apply.
That might be something obvious to you, but it is not obvious to most everyone else. But thanks for so publicly and completely failing to interact with anything I said. Again, quite revealing.
I am beginning to wonder if you are as unfamiliar with philosophy as you appear to be with logic. You see, there are more categories which fall under "impossible" than just logic; for example, there is metaphysically impossible, epistemically impossible, ethically impossible and so forth, as well as logically impossible. You want to get into a textual discussion? Great; provide us the exegesis of Luke 1:37 that shows which category of impossible it is referring to there. Since you are calling upon the text, I can only assume you have already done that homework. I mean, you're not the sort of person who just pulls claims out of his ass—right?
eric209 Wrote:I personally believe the Bible is nothing but a ... [snip rest]
So what? You are critiquing Christian claims, a task for which your personal beliefs have zero relevance.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)