RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 27, 2015 at 9:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2015 at 9:19 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(May 25, 2015 at 12:23 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Ah...the graveyard of the gods.
Just because some conceptions of god are fictional, does it necessarily follow that all of them are? Even Plato and Aristotle rejected the anthropomorphic deities like Zeus and Hercules in favor of a supreme being or god that created all of reality.
The theist believes that a god exists. Then, through reason or revelation or both, he narrows the scope of his investigation and chooses to believe in the God that most probably exists.
If you wish to prove that Christianity or theism belongs in the graveyard along with all of the failed gods and goddesses of the past, then provide some evidence as to why you believe that the God of classical theism has suffered the same fate as his mythological competitors.
Ah, I love the smell of special pleading in the evening.
Well, not really, because it stinks ... just like all shitty reasoning stinks.
You need to explain why your god is real, and how you were able to cross off every other deity in existence.
Mind you, I can conceive of one right this minute, and according to your idiotic misunderstanding of the burden of proof, you would have to be able to cross him off before you can say you have no faith in my deity.
And at any rate, you're lying about how you came to believe in god. You weren't trained first to believe in the idea of a god, and then through patient and steady investigation of the entire gamut of 4,000 or so religions (not to mention 40,000 sects of Christianity!) come to believe that the Catholic conception of god is the most accurate.
I wonder what your Bible says about false witness?
Maybe you should more closely respect the tenets you purport to hold, because your dishonesty is transparent to us, and we're only mere mortals.
(May 25, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: To prove that God does not exist, show that the idea of God involves a logical contradiction.
Perfect mercy and Hell. We can cross the Christian god off the list, y'all.
(May 25, 2015 at 1:57 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(May 25, 2015 at 10:09 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: It's Never Too Soon For Urban Legends
Urban legends can spring up in no time and persist despite their outrageous claims and evidence to the contrary.
"But the early believers saw Jesus days after he died on the cross", you object.
One word: Elvis.
Well, I have to admit something...I didn't see this the first time around. I got so caught up in the whole "David Koresh proves the apostles were nuts" thing, that I complete missed this even GREATER stupidity.
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(Man, this kinda stuff gives atheists a bad name.)
He's a deist, numbnuts. Can't you even read English?
