RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 27, 2015 at 8:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2015 at 8:36 pm by Whateverist.)
(January 27, 2015 at 6:18 pm)SteveII Wrote: I don't see why it is confusing to you all that a book largely containing God's interaction with men might contain miracles. If God does something, it is not a result of a natural process: therefore supernatural, and that is the definition of a miracle.
Might not some isolated tribes upon first encountering the modern world have made the same assumption? "Their fire comes from little boxes, they fly in boxes and they have wondrous medicines which can cure anything. Everything they do is supernatural!"
Perhaps the ways of a god are natural from its point of view. To a god, it might be quite comprehensible why we would think everything It did was supernatural, even though it knows better. All we can do, at least until the carcass of some god washes up on the beach, is admit we don't know how they do what they do if they exist and if they do anything at all.
(January 27, 2015 at 6:18 pm)SteveII Wrote: I am not going to debate on evolution because it does not matter to the question of the existence of God.
Kudos, to you sir. Kudos I say!
(January 27, 2015 at 6:18 pm)SteveII Wrote: The OT is useful to teach us about God. In spite of your mocking, Augustine has the right attitude when looking at the OT. Standing too firm on a scientific or historical position that does not "prejudice the faith" runs the risk of "falling with it" when it is proved otherwise. Standing too firmly on an issue also leads to a fear of being wrong--which is not the right approach. We should embrace the search for the truth.
(My bolding.)
Perhaps you would like to join me in embracing whatever the truth shall bring? The tenets of whateverism are straightforward and incapable of conflict since there is only one. We look for, acknowledge and abide in the truth that we find as we find it, but only until a more comprehensive formulation of the truth is found.