tackattack said: " If you really want to share ideas CP then I'm more than willing as always. If you just want to rant I won't bother answering your questions. If you're just going to continue to ignore the points I bring up I'll assume you conceed, privately to myself, and the extreme strength of your atheism will remain untouched."
Why is it that when I make a statement it is considered ranting when I am simply making an informed opinion? Your replies to my questions did not really answer my questions any differently than I would have expected. In order to accept your replies I would have as you have correctly stated, to accept the word of god and his existence by faith. I personally cannot accept either by faith since in my own opinion faith is the abandonment of reason contrary to what many theists claim.
Comparing god to an earthly father is one of the most incompatible and fallacious errors anyone could commit since the biblical gods many lessons in the O.T. ended in death. I don't know of many parents who would slay their own children for being curious and "sinning" against them. I agree that none of us are perfect but I do not think that that was gods intention from my reading of Genesis. Although most modern Christians no longer take the Adam and Eve story literally it still demonstrates that god was disappointed even surprised by the disobedience of the first couple. If this is true then it demonstrates that the so called omniscience of god is questionable and even incompatible with not just this but many other events as told in the scriptures.
To recognize that mankind is fallible, fragile, etc. is better explained as a natural occurrence than to try and throw the blame on oneself in order to aggrandize and exult a so called god whose existence is impossible and unproven.
Why is it that when I make a statement it is considered ranting when I am simply making an informed opinion? Your replies to my questions did not really answer my questions any differently than I would have expected. In order to accept your replies I would have as you have correctly stated, to accept the word of god and his existence by faith. I personally cannot accept either by faith since in my own opinion faith is the abandonment of reason contrary to what many theists claim.
Comparing god to an earthly father is one of the most incompatible and fallacious errors anyone could commit since the biblical gods many lessons in the O.T. ended in death. I don't know of many parents who would slay their own children for being curious and "sinning" against them. I agree that none of us are perfect but I do not think that that was gods intention from my reading of Genesis. Although most modern Christians no longer take the Adam and Eve story literally it still demonstrates that god was disappointed even surprised by the disobedience of the first couple. If this is true then it demonstrates that the so called omniscience of god is questionable and even incompatible with not just this but many other events as told in the scriptures.
To recognize that mankind is fallible, fragile, etc. is better explained as a natural occurrence than to try and throw the blame on oneself in order to aggrandize and exult a so called god whose existence is impossible and unproven.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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