RE: What one thing would disprove Christianity to you?
January 3, 2013 at 3:38 am
(This post was last modified: January 3, 2013 at 3:40 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(January 3, 2013 at 3:18 am)Ryft Wrote: ...Better put...It seems inconsistent with reality.
(January 3, 2013 at 2:10 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: You said the Bible is consistent with reality. I gave examples where it isn't consistent with reality as we know it.
No, you did not. You said you don't know whether God or his "superfriends" exist, and that you cannot understand why I think they do. The only way such beings are examples of the Bible being inconsistent with reality is if you DO know they don't exist. Is that the case? You know they don't exist? (You know where I am going next, right? Be careful.)
And likewise, how do you know these things exist? How can you say that the bible is externally consistent with reality if it contains things such as angels, etc, that you don't know exist? How can you say it's consistent when it that worldview contains so many unknowns? Until such things can be shown to exist or that it is reasonble to assume they exist you cannot say the bible is consistent with reality.
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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).
