RE: Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic
March 14, 2018 at 12:01 pm
(This post was last modified: March 14, 2018 at 12:08 pm by possibletarian.)
(March 14, 2018 at 10:57 am)SteveII Wrote: If the God of Christianity exists, then the Bible certainly contains information (no matter your position on inerrantcy) about God. You are confusing proving God with knowing his attributes if he does exist. They are not the same task.
Yes its a good list of definitions, but nothing more. All you seem to be proving is that Christianity has made a better a good job of creating a list of definitions that may be true if a god existed, though of course there are continued problem with the interpretation of what the scripture actually means in many places.
It would be easy to define a completely new entity that would better fit the world we see around us though, we could make one up who loved misery and was mischievous (in fact many early religions did) We could define a creator god who from the start created using evolution. A god who caused the known universe from existing matter via manipulation, in fact we could add many modifications to our 'god definition' to make it a more likely god than Yahweh. We could even make up a god who caused people to believe in many gods all of them lies including Yahweh. All these better fit the world we see around us.
But such things would be completely meaningless and remain an exercise of the mind unless we could actually prove the god behind the definitions existed, a list of definitions proves only that you have a list of definitions. I guess what we are really asking is what even makes you think your definitions are true ?
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'