The Bible is the claim, not the evidence

[Bad Writer]

Often times, though, what I see if the atheist will say something about a verse and how that contradicts with something else and how do I reconcile it?

I'll then show them other verses, differing theology, and my reconciliation, and then the whole "the Bible is false" thing gets thrown in my face.

At that point, I'm just like "wtf whatever".

Sure. I'm guessing that just means the atheist was either fed up with your interpretation of the Bible or he didn't know as much as he thought he did. It's definitely a cop-out remark, especially since it's way off the mark from what your were originally debating.

lol, I've been around for awhile. I'm one of the TTA admins and have been posting there for over 2 years.

I've grown to understand and even love the atheist forums... but it has nothing to do with atheism and theism... it has everything to do with people. A person is a person. Their religion or lack there of doesn't define them. There are atheist and theist angels and there are atheist and theist jackasses... why? Because of humanity.

Anyway, about the other thing... it's the only honest approach to the subject. Anyone who says that God is physical and can be proved/disproved empirically is deluded. You can say it all day, but it's still a Penrose Triangle.

Absolutely. If someone believes in god because they had a personal experience they believe to be metaphysical in nature, that's all fine and dandy as long as it remains just that: a personal experience.

I have some personal views of my own that I may not have evidence for, so that is exactly why I keep them to myself.