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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:09
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On Aug 1, 4:40�am, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:23:58 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
> in alt.atheism:
>
> ...
>
> >Well, no it does not. �What you are claiming is that if you can find a
> >mistake or something debatable in a non-fiction book, then you have
> >proven it is fiction. �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. �A perceived mistake in a non-fiction book can
> >happen because of a misinterpretation of events by either the author
> >or reader of the book.
>
> Since you insist that the Bible is not just a collection of stories,
> then you are insisting that the Bible is completely and utterly
> unreliable. As statements of fact, the Bible fails again and again. Your
> ignorance of the failures of the Bible does not make the Bible true.

Well, there is no great failure.  Atheists tried for several months to
say that Hezekiah's tunnel was a failure.  But water kept going
through it.  You could get every atheist on earth to say that the
Bible is a failure, and nothing would change.  So what exactly is it
that you are trying to do?
Robert B. Winn
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
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