RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 8, 2009 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2009 at 12:37 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 8, 2009 at 12:28 pm)Ace Wrote: In other words he made everything, I cannot detect him in any form. That makes it very hard to believe in such a thing. No evidence and no detection possibilities. I'm being told that there is an invisible flying man in the sky that cannot be found but is there somehow. Sorry if I seem skeptical but I don't believe that for a moment.Well, no, that is not what you are being told.
Evidence does not mean "direct detection". Evidence means something that testifies to and makes evident the truth of a thing. And there are such things in the case of God. There are footprints. Just like my metaphor, of a scenario where you see footprints in the snow of an animal, which is outside the reach of direct observation, but there are still things that testify to and makes evident the presence of that animal.
(August 8, 2009 at 12:28 pm)Ace Wrote: This is why I reject religion. I don't think this arguement is going to shift anything soon so I guess we might as well call this one a agree to disagree.But you have not refuted my arguments. You have just repeated a typical atheist straw man, and repeated the sentence "evidence of God is impossible", because direct observation is. Though I certainly disagree. Evidence does not mean direct observation.
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