RE: Apologetics was much more efficient in ancient times
September 14, 2012 at 12:02 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2012 at 12:02 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(September 13, 2012 at 11:48 pm)Drich Wrote:(September 13, 2012 at 11:17 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: And maybe God got stuck on the toilet?lol, no. I spelled it out like that so you might have been able to see the reason and the contrast between OT worship/relationship with God and how we have been able to know/worship god after the events of Acts 2 when the Holy Spirit was poured out on all who believed.
You're committing an ad hoc fallacy. You're making up unsupported excuses for a lack of evidence.
Meaning God no longer has to supercharge one person to be a repersentive, but all can potentially have an indewellment of the Holy Spirit. Which in of itself means that you as a believer are your own wittness/phrophet/testament. That is why I keep saying if you want proof of God then ask, seek and knock as outlined in luke 11.
Now you're committing the appeal to faith fallacy. "X is true. If you have faith, then you will see that x is true."
The holy spirit is a pathetic substitute for the direct interventions of God in the OT. The holy spirit can't be distinguished from a placebo effect.
You're still committing an ad hoc fallacy anyway. Just because you might give some theological reason doesn't make it any less ad hoc. There's still no evidence to support that reason.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
