(October 19, 2012 at 3:16 am)Drich Wrote:(October 18, 2012 at 11:54 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: So... why did YHWH describe the messiah to the Jews in one way but in "reality" it happens differently?
I think this question sums up 99% of the problems people have with God.
God describes something, and 'we' have an idea of how that something is supposed to play out or how God is supposed to make something happen like with Christ.
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Perfectly reasonable. You come up with a hypothesis (God exists), you make predictions about what you would expect if the hypothesis were true, and if the predictions don't come true, you throw the hypothesis out.
My ignore list
"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).