(September 21, 2012 at 12:12 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I let him know what swords I will bring to the debate. (sounds perfectly fine).
If he said that, it would've meant that he still agrees to debate you.
But saying what I would bring, is at best unclear, and at worse in your case, given that he rejected your proposal to debate you, given that context, it seems rather he meant it the sense what he would've done had he debated you.
And if it was past tense, correct me if I'm wrong, wouldn't it be:
"I let him know what I would have brought to the debate...." (but even that it would be unclear)
because "I would bring to the debate" is present tense as well, and the words "I will bring to debate" would've meant he still agrees to debate you...
As I said it's unclear at most, and at worse, the context shows he meant something else.
Hi MysticKnight,
No, I'm afraid you are confusing a past participle with a past tense. "Would have brought" is a past participle. If he had said "I let him know what I would have brought to the debate", it means there was a debate in the past but it got aborted. The speaker is then saying this is what he would have brought to the debate had the debate gone on.
Anyway, I don't want to argue further. If godschild says he had no intention of having a debate with me, that's fine. One would have thought if someone had the gall to call someone else a non-Christian by biblical standards, he should at least be prepared to defend the Bible if the person so accused wanted to discredit the Bible in the first place. But no, my experience so far has been Christians love proclaiming that the Bible is so wonderful and others get their morality from the God of the Bible etc but when someone is willing to debate any issue on the Bible, these same Christians just back off. It's like this in other forums too.
With that, I bid you guys farewell. I will take it that none of the Christians here is willing to debate me on the Bible. Rayaan, thanks for the suggestion that I should engage Drich, but as you can see, they're all the same. The word of God that they so proudly badger everyone with is so delicate it cannot withstand the heat of a debate. They should stamp "FRAGILE" on the covers of all Bibles.
Cheerio, you won't hear from me again unless one of the Christians here changes his mind and would like to engage me in a debate. I'll suddenly spring to life again, I assure you that. And it matters not to me if ten of you wish to debate with me alone.
And now, it's goodbye for good!!!!!!!!
