(May 3, 2016 at 9:48 am)Ben Davis Wrote: Why are you still ignoring my posts? I've engaged you and shown you the courtesy of answering your poorly formed request for evidence, offering advice on how you might better approach such questions in the future. I've yet to even receive an acknowledgement, let alone a response to the information I've provided. That's very rude.
Now you come with a completely different topic, derailing your own thread! Is that because you refuse to accept that your challenge has been met? Is it because you can't keep a thought straight in your own head? What's going on?
(May 3, 2016 at 9:19 am)Wryetui Wrote:
1. He cannot rightfully require material, non-transcendent evidence for a non-material, transcendent God without committing a category mistake. He must abandon his materialistic worldview, but this is incompatible with his atheist worldview.
2. He cannot enter into the Christian worldview, which is based on a Transcendent God, and use the transcendent laws of logic without being self-contradictory in his approach."
Nonsense. The whole point of a theistic god is that it intervenes in human affairs, in the material universe (any god which fails to intervene is deistic not theistic). Such intervention must, by definition of occurrence in the material universe, leave a testable trail. If you claim that your god answers prayers, grants blessings, turns wine in to blood, tests can be made to verify the veracity of such claims. If your god makes no interventions, there would be no point to it: from the perspective of our universe, there's no difference in attributes between that god and something that is non-existent.
So which is it? A theistic god, the existence of which can be proven or a deistic god that matters not?
Excuse me, Ben Davis, but if you cannot comprehend that in this post there is a lot of brainless commentaries and that yours was lost between them we are not going anywhere. I do not have time to read trough the whole page you provided, I have opened it and it is full of technicism I do not understand, that is why I just asked you to simplify them and to give me a brief and simplified answer, is it that hard?
"Let us commit ourselves and one another and our whole life to Christ, our God"
- Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
- Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom