(August 13, 2009 at 1:54 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Ok. Who needs to do it anyway?No one "needs to do it", I never said that.
(August 13, 2009 at 1:54 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Where's this "God" of yours? And how on earth does "Jesus" fit into all this - to get to that theistic (Christian) point from where you're at (Deistic rambling) seems like a total mindfuck to me."Deus" is the Latin equivalent of Greek "Theos", both of which mean God, and are also etymologically equivalent. My arguments don't establish just any god (deity) or theology (e.g. Zeus), but specifically the transcendent God of biblical doctrine.
Though you should note, I didn't come here to offer absolute or objective proof that Christianity is true, but simply some reasons to believe that the transcendent God of biblical doctrine exists as we have it revealed through the prophets and patriarchs, in the scriptures and traditions.
That is what the TAG does; it compares a Christian to an atheist worldview and concludes that Christianity is more likely to be true. Any version of biblical transcendent theism would then be true insfoar as it borrows from the Christian worldview and biblical doctrine of God, and if analogous biblical theism is taken to be true to begin with, a (biblical-)theistic perspective of the bible and history and Christianity follow, which makes Christianitys truth much more likely, even if one is not a Christian.
The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
-G. K. Chesterton
-G. K. Chesterton