(December 14, 2009 at 1:06 pm)Joe Bloe Wrote: tackattack writes: God doesn't choose sides...
But God does choose sides. In Joshua 17:18 he tells his people before the war with the Canaanites: "the mountain shall be thine" (no qualification - "the mountain shall be thine").
tackattack also claims that God's omnipotence is not to be questioned because it wasn't god who was trying to evict the Canaanites; it was "the men (who) could not drive out the chariots of iron."
The argument hinges on the pronoun "he". Does it refer to God, or does it refer to Joshua and his men?
But Judges 1:19 does not just contradict Revelation 19:6 (which states that God is omnipotent) it also contradicts Joshua 17:18 where God clearly says to his people, "thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots..." yet when it came to the crunch, according to Judges 1:19 he (God or Joshua, take your pick) could NOT drive out the Canaanites BECAUSE they had iron chariots.
...and so it goes: As each contradiction is explained, the explanation merely creates new difficulties with some other bible text.
That might work against a literalist but Tackattack already made it pretty clear he thinks it's mostly all nonsense stories with a sliver of truth - that being how people experienced what they perceived to be god. He's just really bad with probability and has convinced himself that if enough coincidences happen in your life and if enough people believe in god and report experiences of him he must exist
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