(June 5, 2012 at 9:04 am)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote:(June 5, 2012 at 8:47 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Explain the evidence you drew upon to translate this into "I and the Father are in a special organization called God" as opposed to some type of poetic symbolism.
The ad hoc hypothesis is definitely one of our favorite fallacies to employ, to paraphrase your signature epigraph.
When you make up one to explain away contrary evidence of come up with a more palatable theology, you don't need any evidence. You're just making shit up.
*I'm* making shit up now am I? I'm just quoting a common interpretation of that passage. The fact of the matter is there is no indication in the Bible at any point that "God" is a divine organization as opposed to a singular being or a Trinity. If you don't consider conjuring up that unfounded explaination to be "making shit up" then you've got a very skewed perspective on what that is.
Third Best Christian? Is that meant to be ironic? What happened to the First and the Second? They couldn't make it because they're both in brain dead comas?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.