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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

#11849
From: Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:04
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On Jul 31, 3:45 am, rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 5:39 am, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
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> > "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> >news:9dcddedb-bce6-457f-b0c5-d9a6d2bb6bd7@m45g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
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> > > On Jul 22, 10:04 am, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
> > >> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> > >>news:8ab589a3-2731-4a92-a41e-d6870a4e6f4b@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
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> > >> > On Jul 21, 10:08 pm, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
> > >> >> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> > >> >>news:efa8da13-56b6-4386-bfe5-c571b689a669@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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> > >> >> >> >God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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> > >> >> >> You have no evidence at all about God.- Hide quoted text -
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> > >> >> >> - Show quoted text -
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> > >> >> > Would you like me to send you a copy of the Bible?
> > >> >> > Robert B. Winn
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> > >> >> You could, but it would be much better if you could provide some
> > >> >> evidence
> > >> >> of
> > >> >> God as well.
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> > >> >> --
> > >> >> Steve O
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> > >> > God sent His Only Begotten Son, Steve. If that was not enough for
> > >> > you, nothing I could do or say is going to convince you of anything.
> > >> > Robert B. Winn
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> > >> Got any evidence that Jesus was the son of God?
> > >> Please don't say, "the Bible" - that isn't evidence of anything at all,
> > >> it's
> > >> just an old, old story.
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> > >> --
> > >> Steve O
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> > > Well, actually the Bible is evidence of Hezekiah's tunnel.
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> > The bible isn't evidence of anything- it's story with so- called magical
> > events included in it.
> > We keep telling you that, but you don't listen.
> > The actual tunnel itself is evidence, not the book that mentions it..
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> > > different books of the Old Testament describe the construction of
> > > Hezekiah's tunnel.
> > > Robert B. Winn
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> > Different books of the Old Testament describe sheep, too.
> > Why do you think either description is significant or important?
> > You haven't told us yet.
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> > --
> > Steve O
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> Well, sheep are used metaphorically in the Bible to denote followers
> of Jesus Christ.
> Robert B. Winn

We tend to use the term sheep too.  It conjures ideas quite suitable.
A rather dim animal, bred (using controlled evolution) to be even
stupider than it started as, that mindlessly follows around the head
of the flock and eats all the grass.  And shits on everything.

Al
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From: "Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al)" <alwhipp@optusnet.com.au>
Newsgroups: sci.physics,cam.misc,alt.sci.physics,alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:04:07 -0700 (PDT)
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