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Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 17, 2013 at 6:44 pm
(July 17, 2013 at 6:31 pm)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote:
(July 17, 2013 at 3:21 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: I call them ancient charlatans, lol.

Any relation to the great composer by the same name? Indirect, obviously, since he never had any children I'm aware of from his bio.

I don't think so. I learned the word "Charlatan" when I read the Princeton Review's book, Word Smart. A charlatan is a con artist.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 17, 2013 at 6:46 pm
(July 17, 2013 at 6:44 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: I don't think so. I learned the word "Charlatan" when I read the Princeton Review's book, Word Smart. A charlatan is a con artist.

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to say the great composer was a charlatan. I was just asking on an unrelated topic.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 12:45 am
(July 17, 2013 at 6:46 pm)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote:
(July 17, 2013 at 6:44 pm)Michael Schubert Wrote: I don't think so. I learned the word "Charlatan" when I read the Princeton Review's book, Word Smart. A charlatan is a con artist.

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to say the great composer was a charlatan. I was just asking on an unrelated topic.

I honestly don't know.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 3:34 am
(July 10, 2013 at 2:17 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:
(July 10, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Godschild Wrote: God says He is spirit, meaning He has no physical features like we do, God is a real being, not a philosophy.

Be careful with that kind of heresy. Does not Genesis state that God made man in his own image?

Yes but that's how he interprets it so naturally sticking with the usual theist logic his is the right interpretation.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 10:56 am
(July 11, 2013 at 11:39 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(July 11, 2013 at 5:18 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Well forgive me for not ever seeing this before. Perhaps I didn't read that particular thread.

So please explain to me how God has no human features when the bible says that man was made in God's image? In other words, God created man to look just like him. Don't try to weasel the words around to claim "made in his image" doesn't mean that.

God is a trinity and we are a trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit 3 in 1. Man has a body, a conscious mind, and a spirit, the breath of God 3 in 1.

There is no evidence for your assertion. Consciousness is a property of the mind, mind is a property of the brain, and you have not defined what spirit is.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 2:17 pm
(July 18, 2013 at 10:56 am)Chas Wrote:
(July 11, 2013 at 11:39 pm)Godschild Wrote: God is a trinity and we are a trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit 3 in 1. Man has a body, a conscious mind, and a spirit, the breath of God 3 in 1.

There is no evidence for your assertion. Consciousness is a property of the mind, mind is a property of the brain, and you have not defined what spirit is.

In your own words you have described a trinity.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 2:29 pm
(July 18, 2013 at 2:17 pm)Godschild Wrote:
(July 18, 2013 at 10:56 am)Chas Wrote: There is no evidence for your assertion. Consciousness is a property of the mind, mind is a property of the brain, and you have not defined what spirit is.

In your own words you have described a trinity.

1. What's your point?
2. No he didn't. The third element of his statement was that you have not defined spirit; he did not use spirit in his model.

Now, can you politely describe what you consider to be spirit? If you don't, then there's no need for you to continue in this discussion.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 2:47 pm (This post was last modified: July 18, 2013 at 3:42 pm by Walking Void.)
I will help You out Godschild.

BadWriterSparty, this is what Godschild is implying by spirits:

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It fits very well with his quote:

Quote:Man has a body, a conscious mind, and a spirit, the breath of God 3 in 1.
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Some more trinities for you GC:

Larry, Curly, Moe
Good, Bad, Ugly
The Moon, your eye, a big pizza pie

Omigosh - I just proved God!

Or maybe I simply listed sets of three nominally related items (three of them, in fact - the hidden trinity).
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RE: Bibles Vs. Direct Observation
July 18, 2013 at 9:40 pm
mouth, anus, vagina <---- The Hole-y Trinity.
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