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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:03
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On Aug 5, 1:49�pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> > 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:
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> >> > On Aug 3, 10:42 pm, "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)"
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> >> > <alwh...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> > > On Aug 2, 11:44 pm, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
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> >> > > > 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.
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> >> > > > > > The proclamation of an atheist has no real power. It does not
> >> > > > > > change
> >> > > > > > reality.
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> >> > > > > And the proclamation of a religious nutter such as yourself has
> >> > > > > even
> >> > > > > less power. It doesn't even acknowledge reality.
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> >> > > > 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
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> >> > > This is another of your more persistent lies. No-one said at any
> >> > > stage that there is no tunnel.
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> >> > > Al- Hide quoted text -
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> >> > 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
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> >> 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.
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> > 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
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> 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.
Robert B. Winn
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From: rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics,cam.misc,alt.sci.physics,alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:03:45 -0700 (PDT)
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