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Article #11020Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:01
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:01
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On Aug 6, 1:51�am, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote: > "DanielSan" <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote in message > > news:ZbWdnbkE8uTaiATVnZ2dnUVZ_qDinZ2d@speakeasy.net... > > > > > > > rbwinn wrote: > >> On Aug 5, 1:49 pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote: > >>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message > > >>>news:e323a763-6e98-4845-981c-800015e7a2e3@s50g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > > >>>> On Aug 4, 10:33 pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)" > >>>> <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > >>>>> On Aug 5, 8:48 am, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote: > >>>>>> On Aug 3, 10:42 pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)" > >>>>>> <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: > >>>>>>> On Aug 2, 11:44 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote: > >>>>>>>> On Aug 1, 7:51 pm, DanielSan <daniel...@speakeasy.net> wrote:> > >>>>>>>> rbwinn wrote: > >>>>>>>>>> On Aug 1, 7:34 am, ben_dolan_...@reet.com (Ben Dolan) wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>> rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote: > >>>>>>>>>>>> What makes a book fiction or non-fiction is the intent of the > >>>>>>>>>>>> author or > >>>>>>>>>>>> authors. A fiction book is an account of imaginary events. > >>>>>>>>>>> Exactly so, and THAT is why the Bible is fiction. I'm glad you > >>>>>>>>>>> understand that, you may be making progress. > >>>>>>>>>> The proclamation of an atheist has no real power. It does not > >>>>>>>>>> change > >>>>>>>>>> reality. > >>>>>>>>> And the proclamation of a religious nutter such as yourself has > >>>>>>>>> even > >>>>>>>>> less power. It doesn't even acknowledge reality. > >>>>>>>> So why was I the one who acknowledged that Hezekiah's tunnel exists > >>>>>>>> while atheists tried to claim that tour guides in Jerusalem were > >>>>>>>> taking tourists through solid rock? > >>>>>>>> Robert B. Winn > >>>>>>> This is another of your more persistent lies. No-one said at any > >>>>>>> stage that there is no tunnel. > >>>>>>> Al- Hide quoted text - > >>>>>> You continue to say that the Bible is nothing but mythology. If you > >>>>>> say that the Bible is nothing but mythology, you are saying that the > >>>>>> tunnel is mythology because the Bible describes the construction of > >>>>>> Hezekiah's tunnel in three different books of the Old Testament. > >>>>>> Robert B. Winn > >>>>> No. You continue to not see the point. It is quite disturbing. > >>>>> Greek mythology mentions Mount Olympus and Athens, both of which exist > >>>>> today. This does not mean that Athens is mythological. > >>>>> Surely you can't be THAT stupid. > >>>> I am not so stupid as to believe that an atheist would ever do > >>>> anything but deny that Hezekiah's tunnel exists. If you tell me that > >>>> you believe the tunnel exists, all you are doing is saying that you > >>>> would tell the next person it does not exist. That is how you do > >>>> things. Since that is the way you are, I just keep it simple by > >>>> saying that you continue to deny the existence of the tunnel. Denying > >>>> the veracity of anything in the Bible is more important to you than > >>>> the existence of the tunnel. As long as it remains that way, you do > >>>> not admit that the tunnel exists. All you are doing is just putting > >>>> words together in an attempt to deceive. > >>>> Robert B. Winn > >>> Would it make you happy if an atheist walked through the tunnel? > >>> For f**ks sake, I'd be willing to pay out to visit the bloody place and > >>> walk > >>> through it just to shut you up. > > >> What would that accomplish? �You would still deny that the Bible > >> describes the construction of the tunnel. > > > Where has ANYONE denied that the Bible describes the construction of the > > tunnel? > > Dan, this moron has been equivocating over the use of the word, > construction. > A tunnel is mentioned, but there is no description of the actual > construction of it at all, other than it was built by Hezekiah. > He simply uses his lack of understanding of plain English to try to prove > his own point. > > -- So your idea,Steve, is that Hezekiah caused a tunnel to be built without constructing it. How was it done? Do you think he waved a magic wand like the wizards in Harry Potter books? Then again, how do you explain the inscription on the wall of the tunnel left by the workers who said that they were working with picks? Robert B. Winn
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