Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Free Lunch
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:10

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:00:13 -0500, Antares 531
<gordonlrDELETE@swbell.net> wrote in alt.atheism:

>On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:31:36 -0500, Free Lunch <lunch@nofreelunch.us>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:01:56 -0500, Antares 531
>><gordonlrDELETE@swbell.net> wrote in alt.atheism:
>>
>>>On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:20:31 -0500, Free Lunch <lunch@nofreelunch.us>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>(snip
>>>>
>>>>God made no prophecies.
>>>>
>>>Indeed He did! God spoke to us through the prophets.  Gordon
>>
>>No evidence supports that proposition.
>>
>Indeed, an abundance of evidence supports this and no known evidence
>falsifies it. How do you explain the consistent fulfillment of
>Biblical prophecies if they weren't given to us from God.

The stories were not actually valid, testable prophecies. Even the
famous prophecy in Isaiah that supposedly predicts Jesus is so vague as
to be meaningless, but the one thing that is clear is the name. Of
course, Jesus did not have that name.

>Can any mere
>mortal reliably predict such highly improbable events in advance.

Vague prophecies? Sure, anyone can. I can predict disasters and know
they will come about. It's even easier if I'm writing after the event
took place.

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