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Submitted for your perusal.
#31
RE: Submitted for your perusal.
(September 26, 2011 at 9:59 am)Stucky Wrote: The first book of the Bible is actually a compilation of the stories of 10 men and their Creator.

Is it? How do you know?

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#32
RE: Submitted for your perusal.
The prophecy you referred to as proof of the truth of the gospel would:

A: only be proof that the author was precognitive
B: actually be relevant if you could show that it wasn't written after the fact (which is the current understanding of the passage).

Now I doubt this is one of the reasons for your faith, and I assume it's meant to be compelling to us as atheists, but it is not (at least to me) for the reasons stated above. Introducing things like precognitive abilities into your argument only increases your workload, as now you have to provide evidence for the existence of god, the reliability of the bible as his word, the accuracy of his word (specifically with regards to the past and present), and the accuracy of predictions, or indeed even the possibility of being able to foretell the future.

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#33
RE: Submitted for your perusal.
(September 26, 2011 at 10:22 am)Stucky Wrote:
(September 26, 2011 at 10:02 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote: Sorry honey ...everyone here has seen EVERYTHING THAT COULD BE SUBMITTED FOR PERUSAL

What on earth do you think we are??

Please read http://atheistforums.org/forum-40.html AGAIN!!

[b]We've seen it all and come from where YOU are now.[/]

You are an atheist, of course.
You may have "seen it all" but you didn't comprehend it.
You are not where I am because you haven't even started the journey yet.

Angel


(September 26, 2011 at 10:19 am)Rhythm Wrote: Is it now, how about you paraphrase it for me? What is the word of god, and which god's word are we talking about here? Please explain why the bible is more reliable than say, a cookbook.

What, specifically, are you invoking god as an explanation for?

You might want to clarify your requests a little better. The is only one Word of God and I don't need to paraphrase it anymore than is paraphrased in my submission. The Bible has been proven to be "reliable" by the fulfillment of the prophecies of God. You just choose not to believe them.

Angel

You might want to understand much better as you are seeming like an arrogant idiot who has nothing in his own mind but what the priests and "scripture" put there....

So where is the REAL stucky??
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