(January 2, 2013 at 7:50 pm)Ryft Wrote: So you cannot understand why I believe thus and so. That is fine. But since that is also entirely irrelevant I am going to ignore it.
(Maybe others have been willing to wander down these rabbit trails, but I am not. Let us stick to the logically relevant.)
It's not irrelevant. You said the bible is consistent with reality. I gave examples where it isn't consistent with reality as we know it.
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).