RE: The Golden Statue
April 30, 2012 at 7:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2012 at 7:49 am by Drich.)
(April 29, 2012 at 11:03 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:Drich Wrote:It's real simple. If you wish to worship the God of the bible then it is by the bible that you can only know God. The authorship or the validity of the bible is not something you need concern yourself with if you wish to seek an audience with said God. Why? Because it is only through the bible that the God has reviewed Himself. This makes the bible God's responsibility to care for and maintain.And this is the eternal difference between me and you. Would you honestly trust an airconditioning manual if the person who wrote it might not have a clue about electronics? I wouldn't. Neither would I choose to accept what these anonymous authors are saying. How do we know that these anonymous authors knew anything about what happened, if anything really happened?
Because all we or anyone has to do to see if these men knew anything about the "A/C" they wrote about, is to turn it on per their instructions and see if it does what it is supposed to do according to the book.
If it does the everything is confirmed. If it doesn't discard it and move on.
(April 29, 2012 at 11:14 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(April 29, 2012 at 10:49 pm)Drich Wrote: ...so you do understand what it is I am trying to say?
Well, I do understand how the technology you mentioned works, the principles behind them, and I have education sufficient to glean the principles behind technology unfamiliar to me. I have no idea what you're trying to say.
Incidentally, I'd just like to ask, respectfully, that you refrain from assumptively appropriating the meaning of my words to fit your point, whatever it may turn out to be. By that, I mean please avoid using the declarative combination "you do" when presenting it as a question; this does nothing but deliver a pre-emptive conclusion to the topic at hand and is an unfair and transparent attempt to put me in a defensive position. I have no problem with "do you", which implies a sincere request for knowledge and/or clarification.
Language has power. Learn to wield it wisely.
Then If "You do" not understand what is being communicated here then why the need to clarify your understanding of the technologies being presented in this conversation?
Why not simply ask what the point of the message was?
When "you do" this it does nothing but deliver a pre-emptive conclusion to the topic at hand and is an unfair and transparent attempt to put me in a defensive position.
It's funny how you seem to be so keen to point out the tactics of others when they pertain to you, but appear to be oblivious to your own efforts. Which begs the question does that make you a strategist playing to how you think a Christian is supposed to react, or are you a simple hypocrite?
