MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)

[The Valkyrie]

He was.

Wow, now I'm convinced. You've made your case with that brilliant piece of logic and reasoning.

And, don't forget, Harry Potter was the Boy Who Lived!

[Fidel_Castronaut]

When you find a successful forum that operates as a democracy let me know. You signed up, you agree with our enforcement of the rules by default.

You don't like it? You know where the door is. This thread will be merged with the other one because basically they're the same thread. There was no convincing case presented or defended in part 1. And as such continuing with the delusion that there was is spam. And that's the end of the conversation.

Yeah, continue to flex your muscles and play God of the forum. Not everyone with power is fit to rule.

'Flex my muscles'? On an internet forum? I'm enforcing the rules that you have agreed to abide by, and are there to keep the forum running efficiently. You got a problem with it? Message the staff.

Just because you got slapped down by the rules and us doesn't mean you have a right to keep crying about it like a petulant child. Stop being stupid, or leave. You've contributed nothing to the forum thus far except 80+ pages of utter nonsense. Weirdest thing is you think this is somehow different from the same old tired, debunked shit that's graced this and numerous other places of discussion for hundreds of years. It's not. It's tiresome. And if you start another thread with the delusion that you've somehow presented something that you've then defended then we'll escalate to more than just merging threads.

Got it?

[rexbeccarox]

Yeah, continue to flex your muscles and play God of the forum. Not everyone with power is fit to rule.

'Flex my muscles'? On an internet forum? I'm enforcing the rules that you have agreed to abide by, and are there to keep the forum running efficiently. You got a problem with it? Message the staff.

Just because you got slapped down by the rules and us doesn't mean you have a right to keep crying about it like a petulant child.

I'm proud to be able to flex my internet muscles with my fellow forum gods.

[His_Majesty]

No, it is a rejection of your claim.

Um it is both, by rejecting my claim, he made a claim of knowledge. So he walked and chewed gum at the same time.

If I told you about an invisible dragon living in my garage and you told me that dragon is just in my imagination, this is not a claim of knowledge but a rejection of my claim of the dragon's existence.

Could I be wrong? Yes or no.

This is a reasonable statement given the lack of reason to believe the dragon exists.

What if he had good reasons to believe that the dragon exists?

This is why we can lock away people who "hear voices" in their heads. We can't prove the voices aren't really unseen spirits that somehow only the locked away person can hear. It is not necessary to prove that the voices do no exist outside his imagination. Simply the fact that the claim of hearing voices lacks any evidence to support any source outside his imagination is enough.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It is logically impossible to prove a negative.

If there is actually a voice inside the person's head which transcends the person and yourself, then it wouldn't be negative, now would it? Just because you don't see evidence for something doesn't make it a negative, sir, because if there really is an invisible dragon in someones basement (perfectly conceivable), just because you don't see the evidence for it or have any reason to believe it doesn't change the truth value of whether or not the dragon exists or is there.

Your god does not exist.

Have you ever been behind the sun? So how do you know that my God isn't behind the sun?? There is no way you can wiggle out of it, either...you've never been behind the sun, so you simply don't know...plain and simple...so for you to sit there and make these absolute statements, these claims of knowledge, is fallacious.

[abaris]

No, don't.

Don't what? Contain himself? Whose side are you on? There's just so much a person can take.

Don't encourage him to post another diatribe.

[Thumpalumpacus]

When you find a successful forum that operates as a democracy let me know. You signed up, you agree with our enforcement of the rules by default.

You don't like it? You know where the door is. This thread will be merged with the other one because basically they're the same thread. There was no convincing case presented or defended in part 1. And as such continuing with the delusion that there was is spam. And that's the end of the conversation.

Yeah, continue to flex your muscles and play God of the forum. Not everyone with power is fit to rule.

This might just be Yahweh's way of telling you to shut the fuck up. Just a thought.

I mean, "the Lord works in mysterious ways," and all that hoohah.

[Crossless2.0]

Don't what? Contain himself? Whose side are you on? There's just so much a person can take.

Don't encourage him to post another diatribe.

I'm imploring him to contain himself (if not fuck off entirely), i.e., not share his 'thoughts' on whatever it was he could barely contain himself over. I'm beyond bored with him.

[abaris]

I'm beyond bored with him.

Pretty much.

[Cato]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It most certainly is when one expects there to be evidence; as in the case of your imaginary friend who is proclaimed to meddle in everything. Fucking dolt.

[His_Majesty]

said the guy who made a positive claim about having settled the matter of Jesus's existence ... only to backtrack and say that it was his opinion.

You're so stupid you don't even realize you got fished into this position deliberately. Thank you for agreeing with my point.

Oh -- and I believe your god is a figment of your imagination.

Five or six posts later, and you still can't give me any evidence to back up the claim that "God didn't do anything"...instead of giving me what I asked for, I am getting continual rhetoric.

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Guess what, you are not the only idiot out there.

Apparently I am not the only idiot in here, either.

Truth is not a popularity contest

Hey, I have no problems admitting that the 2 billion Christians in this world could be wrong...but they again, they also could be right