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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Free Lunch
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:11
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 08:09:37 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote
in alt.atheism:

>On Aug 2, 11:35?pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:26:22 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
>> in alt.atheism:
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>> >On Aug 2, 9:56?pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:04:19 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
>> >> in alt.atheism:
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>> >> >It means the same in Greek as it does in English.
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>> >> How familiar are you with ancient Greek. What word was used in Luke?
>> >> Feel free to transcribe it using the traditional Latin character
>> >> substitutes for the Greek letters, since usenet isn't necessarily
>> >> designed to support non-latin characters.
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>> >> As for your desire to believe that Luke was a physician and that he
>> >> wrote the gospel of that name, no evidence supports it. The framing of
>> >> the gospel appears to be designed to target a certain audience. Framing
>> >> is not unusual. Simon Morgenstern is a fairly famous author of a story
>> >> called The Princess Bride. Of course, there is the problem that Simon
>> >> Morgenstern never existed except in the imagination, particularly of
>> >> William Goldman, but also of everyone who suspends disbelief long enough
>> >> to enjoy the story.
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>> >> The Bible is a story. It can be fun to suspend disbelief for a while as
>> >> you read it, but you need to bring your critical facilities to bear
>> >> after a while. You do yourself no favor by deluding yourself about what
>> >> the Bible is.- Hide quoted text -
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>> >The Bible is two testaments of Jesus Christ, the Old Testament and the
>> >New Testament.
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>> The Bible is a collection of stories. Neither the Old Testament nor the
>> New are reliable for any reason at all. When tested against history and
>> science, they fail.- Hide quoted text -
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>You mean like they failed in the case of Hezekiah's tunnel?

You still haven't shown that the story that incorporates the tunnel is
true in any way. 
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