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Official debate with local pastor.
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RE: Official debate with local pastor.
(January 23, 2012 at 2:18 pm)JohnDG Wrote: It would really help me out if you guys could give me some advice or a few spears to throw at him. haha

I disagree …. Take the fight to him..
Personally I think he will expect you to go after the wildly irrational Old Testament. .
so don’t ….
Go straight for JC.
You could try this line ….
Ask what he thinks is the reason that there is absolutely no archaeological evidence for the existence of the City of Nazareth during the supposed time period of Jesus’ incarnation. (remember the Gospels refer to Nazareth as a city ,not a village or hamlet…its supposed to have been big enough to have its own Synagogue [you may recall JC was evicted from it] . But on the ground ? nothing.

See below ..
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/nazareth.html

Of course he might come back with “If there was really a problem with the evidence for Nazareth there would be more about it across the Internet. So try this ..
http://www.nazarethmyth.info/book.htmlAnd

Then what does this lack of Nazareth mean for the fabled prophesy of the messiah being called a Nazarene (Mth 2:23) and ,incidentally , just where does that particular prophesy come from? Exactly .

As a follow up why not try the Gaderene Swine (Mrk 5:1)… you remember they were supposed to destroy themselves by charging down a steep slope into the Sea of Galilee.
Garder was supposedly to the south of the sea … but if you use Google-maps you can pull up maps ,photo’s and even topographical maps of the area. And see for yourselves the terrain …. its as flat as a witches tit. No steep places. (And incidentally the supposed position of Garder is over 5 kilometres away from the sea… and the other side of a stream ..so these must have been some really fit long distance running porcine athletes.)

That little lot should give you some ammo.
Hope it goes well.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

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Official debate with local pastor. - by JohnDG - January 23, 2012 at 2:18 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by 5thHorseman - January 23, 2012 at 2:30 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by frankiej - January 23, 2012 at 2:33 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by 5thHorseman - January 23, 2012 at 2:33 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by JohnDG - January 23, 2012 at 2:46 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 23, 2012 at 3:03 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by 5thHorseman - January 23, 2012 at 2:50 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Blam! - January 23, 2012 at 2:59 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by JohnDG - January 23, 2012 at 3:07 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 23, 2012 at 3:29 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by LastPoet - January 23, 2012 at 4:38 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 23, 2012 at 4:54 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Watchman - January 23, 2012 at 5:06 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Phil - January 23, 2012 at 9:26 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Blam! - January 23, 2012 at 5:20 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 23, 2012 at 7:22 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Doubting Thomas - January 23, 2012 at 5:54 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by 8BitAtheist - January 23, 2012 at 5:55 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by JohnDG - January 23, 2012 at 5:58 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Blam! - January 23, 2012 at 7:14 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Rhizomorph13 - January 23, 2012 at 7:19 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 23, 2012 at 8:27 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Blam! - January 23, 2012 at 9:02 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 23, 2012 at 8:34 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Zen Badger - January 24, 2012 at 8:11 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Faith No More - January 24, 2012 at 9:09 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 24, 2012 at 11:39 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by JohnDG - January 24, 2012 at 3:33 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Rhizomorph13 - January 23, 2012 at 8:46 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 24, 2012 at 6:25 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Rhizomorph13 - January 24, 2012 at 11:33 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 24, 2012 at 4:37 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 25, 2012 at 12:49 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 23, 2012 at 8:55 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by KichigaiNeko - January 24, 2012 at 8:32 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Doubting Thomas - January 24, 2012 at 11:59 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 24, 2012 at 12:39 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Doubting Thomas - January 25, 2012 at 12:33 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 25, 2012 at 12:52 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 25, 2012 at 1:14 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 25, 2012 at 3:00 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 26, 2012 at 5:50 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Cinjin - January 25, 2012 at 3:44 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 26, 2012 at 9:27 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 26, 2012 at 3:02 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 26, 2012 at 3:46 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 27, 2012 at 1:34 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Zen Badger - January 27, 2012 at 8:08 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 27, 2012 at 6:21 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 28, 2012 at 1:23 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 31, 2012 at 9:40 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - January 31, 2012 at 6:36 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - February 1, 2012 at 6:44 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by JohnDG - January 25, 2012 at 3:52 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Doubting Thomas - January 25, 2012 at 6:39 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - January 25, 2012 at 7:46 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Doubting Thomas - January 26, 2012 at 2:01 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by reverendjeremiah - January 26, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Official debate with local pastor. - by KichigaiNeko - January 27, 2012 at 9:08 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Phil - January 28, 2012 at 2:02 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Cyberman - January 31, 2012 at 10:40 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Doubting Thomas - February 1, 2012 at 5:32 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - February 1, 2012 at 8:21 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by NoMoreFaith - February 15, 2012 at 9:01 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Zen Badger - February 16, 2012 at 7:50 am
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Rhizomorph13 - February 1, 2012 at 6:37 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - February 1, 2012 at 8:06 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Cyberman - February 1, 2012 at 8:12 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - February 1, 2012 at 8:14 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - February 15, 2012 at 9:20 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Abracadabra - February 15, 2012 at 10:00 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - February 16, 2012 at 6:01 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Abracadabra - February 16, 2012 at 6:42 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Godschild - February 16, 2012 at 9:44 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Abracadabra - February 16, 2012 at 10:22 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Abracadabra - February 16, 2012 at 1:47 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - February 16, 2012 at 10:25 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Abracadabra - February 16, 2012 at 11:35 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by padraic - February 16, 2012 at 11:27 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Minimalist - February 16, 2012 at 11:45 pm
RE: Official debate with local pastor. - by Abracadabra - February 17, 2012 at 12:03 am

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