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Article #11402Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:09
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:09
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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: > > >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: > > ... > > > > > > > > >> >It means the same in Greek as it does in English. > > >> 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. > > >> 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. > > >> 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 - > > >> - Show quoted text - > > >The Bible is two testaments of Jesus Christ, the Old Testament and the > >New Testament. > > 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 - > > - Show quoted text - You mean like they failed in the case of Hezekiah's tunnel? Robert B. Winn
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