RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
September 1, 2012 at 3:23 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2012 at 3:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 1, 2012 at 7:06 am)spockrates Wrote: Do you really still believe I'm trying to trick you into believing omniscience means to know less than all? You are smarter than that, my friend! There is no parlor trick here. If I actually had tried to tricked you, I'm sure you would have revealed by now how the trick was done.
The truth is, I've used no magician's secret and no slight of hand, but simply asked simple questions. All you have to do is answer truthfully what reason tells you: Is the fictional God in whom Christans believe really experienced?
There you go again, unable to continue arguing for the issue of contention you instead decide to fly off to some other garbage claims which will ultimately boil down to jack shit - just like everything about any god whatsoever-.
If the incompatibility of omniscience and free will were enough to prevent you from entertaining christianity you would not be a christian. End of. The two are incompatible.. even in in principle. You have excuses for this (that don't actually excuse it, but hey, whatevs), I'm not exactly surprised.
Has it ever occurred to you that you may not actually be looking to "rule out the impossible" at all...or even engage in any sort of productive logical discussion?
This is extremely simple - If the future can be known, the events of the future are predestined.
If your god -could- know the future and yet chooses not to (or does not, for whatever reason) this doesn't alter whether or not events are predetermined. If it is even possible to know future events, they are.
If it cannot, it is not omniscient, because there is at least one thing that it does not know (future events).
What part of this is giving you so much trouble?
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