RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 28, 2015 at 6:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2015 at 6:33 am by Cheerful Charlie.)
(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.
So far I have heard creation. There is a huge body of discussion on whether Gen 1 is literal or not.
The OT is useful to teach us about God. In spite of your mocking,
Baloney! Genesis contradicts itself badly. Ir cannot be true. You cannot whiffle that away by trying to tell us maybe it doesn't mean what it obviously says. Faced with the fact there is no truth there, quibbling doesn't do the job.
As I pointed out, the very concept of God is self defeating. Does God create the logic, the rules, the laws of the Universe? If so the Biblical perfectly good loving God can eliminate moral evil. And no claims there are unknown reasons God must accept moral evil work with a God that creates the laws and rules of the Universe. These sorts of problems demonstrate the very concept of the nature of God found in the Bible show that conceptual God is impossible. And we get the mythology that paints God as a savage, cruel, incompetent being.
The Bible has nothing to teach us about God.
Cheerful Charlie
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain