RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 28, 2018 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2018 at 9:58 am by LadyForCamus.)
(January 27, 2018 at 5:57 pm)Banned Wrote:(January 27, 2018 at 10:24 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: So, you started with a belief in god first, and then when you discovered the Bible, you felt that it fit nicely with the belief you already had. Do you think if you had found a Koran, you would have become a Muslim instead? If your reason for believing the Bible is true is because first you believed in god, and then you read a book that affirmed your beliefs, isn’t that simply confirmation bias? Couldn’t I say that I always believed in Wizards, and then I discovered Harry Potter, therefore Harry Potter is true? Would that be a rational reason for me to believe in the Harry Potter story? What reason is there for someone like me, who’s never had a personal revelation the way you did, to believe a word of the Bible?
The Bible states—
Thats a strange way to begin a reply in a discussion about why you believe the Bible is true. I mean...unless you’re trying to reason in a circle.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
