Why is belief in a higher power required?

[Statler Waldorf]

Oh? Could you please give us your a priori reasoning for thinking it to be the infallible word of God?

No reasoning required beforehand, Ryantology assumes it’s not the word of God without reason, so it’s only fair that I can do the same.

Slavery, rape, genocide, murder. All of it, God approved.

Well that’s not an accurate statement, but I’ll play along. Ok, and if God approves that, how does that prove he’s a big meanie face?

Well, he implied he actually had a reason, so, I'm calling his bluff hehehe

Axioms are reasoned from, not reasoned to; so your question was absurd. You called what you thought was a bluff and I turned over the nuts.

You'll have to prove that your God is real before we go down that road.

According to whom? Why?

Appeal to solipsism? That's what you're going with? Pfffft

No, Reductio ad absurdum. If you applied your same skepticism you show towards God’s existence and His word to your own self you’d render all proof impossible. In fact, if your atheism were true, it’d be impossible to know anything at all, so the very fact that we can obtain knowledge is proof God exists.

Since fraudo has repeatedly proven less than up to the task, perhaps you can explain to me how infants and children can be evil enough to deserve being slaughtered en masse. Go into detail about how they must have certainly been complicit in whatever crime God deemed them worthy of violent and painful death.

We all actually receive better than we deserve because we live in a Universe created by a gracious God.

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Waldorff,
Is the Bible the infallible word of God?
Yes or no.

The originals, yes.