(September 16, 2013 at 9:32 pm)Drich Wrote: My claims begin and end with what God has done for me. God however offers 'claims' to work with you as well if you simply do as instructed.
Precisely. Presuppositions. You are basing all of your claims on the assumption that this god of yours exists and that it thinks and behaves as you claim. There's a word for the type of reasoning in which you start by assuming your conclusion. Can anyone in the class tell Drich what it is?
Put another way, you are claiming that the Emperor is dressed in robes of the finest silks and then telling us that he will share his fashion tips with us if we just ask him. In order to do that, we have to presuppose not only that Emperor isn't naked, but that there's an Emperor at all. That, in the context of everything you've written in this thread, is the essence of your claim. Since you cannot or will not substantiate it with anything other than "go and ask the Emperor", we remain at an impasse.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
