RE: How can a god, that apparently loves everyone, allow this kind of thing to happen?
October 24, 2013 at 1:43 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2013 at 1:44 pm by Doubting Thomas.)
(October 24, 2013 at 11:29 am)John V Wrote:(October 24, 2013 at 11:17 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: And you're just using the "lost in translation" defense.I'm not familiar with that one. What is it?
It's when a certain word in the bible means something which Christians either don't want to believe or is something embarrassing to Christianity, so they claim that a particular word means something other than what it means, usually claiming that the mistake occurred in the past when the bible was translated from one language to another. In your particular case you seem to get hung up on the term "almighty" meaning "all-powerful," so you claim it means not all-powerful. Yet, when I look at dictionary.com I find:
Quote:al·might·y
[awl-mahy-tee]
adjective
1. having unlimited power; omnipotent, as God.
If I'm not mistaken, that's almost exactly the same as the definition they give for "omnipotent," both actually mentioning God. At any rate, "almighty" and "omnipotent" are synonyms. That means they mean the same thing. Notice how the definition of "almighty" contains the word "omnipotent?"
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
