(September 25, 2013 at 3:39 am)catfish Wrote: No, the absolute "best" I can say is "thank you for the ammusement", the rest will just be painful for your fragile ego.
"Confessing not.." doesn't mark them as deceivers, they were already deceivers as noted by the following verse which you posted. "This is a deceiver and an antichrist"...
See? Still a deceiver and an anti-christ (that's the proper understanding of the word "and", just so you know).
Okay, let's play the logic game again, then: what is the base premise of the bible? That god is real, Jesus is the messiah, and all men know this to be true, whether they profess it or not. Given these premises, none of which I think you'll want to argue against, what does that make a guy like me, who does not profess belief? Well, a liar... or a deceiver... I mentioned this before, but you seem to have ignored it. Along with the verses demanding that we be shunned and killed for our lack of belief in the correct god.
Besides, the verse in question, along with the surrounding passage, is so vague it does, in fact, support both positions. You've yet to do anything other than assert that it doesn't support mine, and unsurprisingly, I don't take bare assertions from theists to be remotely trustworthy.
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