(January 6, 2013 at 7:18 am)Ryft Wrote: You demonstrated and admitted ignorance about the God claimed by biblical Christianity, that is, the one revealed in Scripture through responsible exegesis of the texts. Your job will be a lot easier if you stick to superficial rhetoric, playing the claims of these Christians against those of other Christians. When the smoke clears I will be over here defending the one and only thing I ever defend around here, biblical Christianity, which remains largely ignored and completely unrefuted—at least according to the rules of rational discourse, since irrational twaddle and peanut gallery cackling never amounts to a refutation of anythingThere is then no hope for me to have any discussion on the subject with you, for I am as much inclined to learn about your biblical god as I am to learn about the hindu, norse, egyptian and other gods.
And no, I am not going to provide you a theological education. If you are ignorant about the God of biblical Christianity, the systematic theology of Scripture regarding the nature and character of God, then so be it. You are not alone in that ignorance. But it means you are incapable of mounting an intelligible and rational objection against any of it, and frankly that suits me just fine. Another atheist who cannot raise either an intelligible or rational objection against the very thing he presumes to reject.
It's just another personal god stemming from your interpretation of your special holy book.
One question though: what do those scriptures say about how they were written?