RE: What's not to love?
April 25, 2012 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2012 at 10:46 am by DeistPaladin.)
(April 24, 2012 at 9:57 pm)radorth Wrote: "False in one part, so false in all" is a logical fallacy.
Not necessarily. There are two situations I can think of where a falsehood is a good justification for skepticism:
1. Where the falsehood is a deliberate lie. It doesn't necessarily mean that everything the liar says is false but it does discredit the testimony sufficiently to consider the rest suspect and certainly not to be accepted purely on the author's say-so.
2. Where the testimony is said to be divine revelation, from a perfect and all-knowing source. Such a source should not make mistakes and therefore the exposure of a mistake, deliberate or accidental, precludes the testimony being of divine origin.
(April 25, 2012 at 12:04 am)radorth Wrote: Greater men than you disagree no doubt.
Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Authority
Our society views Jesus through rose-colored glasses. I know because I used to have a positive view of Jesus though I was never a Christian. Take it from someone who knows, it takes a conscious effort to rip off the rose-colored glasses and read the Gospel accounts with a critical eye.
Quote:Which shows you haven't got a clue what he is talking about. How ironic that you are more legalistic, and think more in black or white than the Christians do! I love it. Really.
I read what's there. Not what I want to read.
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... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
