(June 9, 2015 at 9:26 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(June 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm)whateverist Wrote: Have you ever found even one atheist who was primarily concerned with the accuracy of scripture? Weird.
No, so you can be the first!![]()
If you wish to argue effectively against theism - and Christianity, in particular - then you must know our arguments and our scriptures better than we know them ourselves.
And if you think the scriptures are inaccurate, it will be invaluable to actually know them yourself rather than simply cutting and pasting from a few atheist websites. The reason is that once the Christian asks you something that is NOT covered by those sites, you will have nothing left to fall back on.
Make sense?
Not really. The point that many of us have said over and over and over in one way or another is that no written or oral eyewitness account alone is sufficient to prove the supernatural. Full stop, no more is necessary.
However, some of us for one reason or another have read a lot scripture, not to mention theology. And it doesn't take much looking to find contradictions, anachronisms, and portions that contradict what we do know about the Biblical period.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.