(October 31, 2012 at 3:43 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I don't know if it's appropriate for me to post here but I just read Chip's latest response. I'll be responding to it when I get home and have my Bible and other reference materials in front of me. The reason I'm posting this thought here is because it's beside the point of our formal debate and more an observation of how compartmentalized the Christian mind is.
I've often heard this defense from apologists and it amazes me how these Christians can hold these two contradictory thoughts in their mind at the same time:
1. "The Bible is the Word of God"
2. "Ah, gee whiz, whaddaya want, you nit-picker? So there are a few errors here or a few contradictions there. You expect perfection or something?"
Full disclaimer that this is beside the point of our debate and I don't plan to bring it up but it just astounds me that these two beliefs can be held by the same mind at the same time.
Well this gets to the crux of the contradictory claim of the atribute of "all" in "all powerful". If god is perfect then he cannot make mistakes, but if he cannot make mistakes then he is not all powerful. "All" is a contradiction by itself so the concept as a claim is broken and does not work logically.
