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On Jul 6, 12:57 am, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> rbwinn wrote:
> > On Jul 5, 2:40 pm, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >> rbwinn wrote:
> >>> On Jul 4, 8:37�pm, hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>>> On Jul 4, 11:32 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
> >>>>> in alt.atheism:
> >>>>>> On Jul 4, 2:57 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
> >>>>>>> rbwinn wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On Jul 3, 4:15?pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 03:44:40 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
> >>>>>>>>> in alt.atheism:
> >>>>>>>>>> On Jul 2, 5:28?pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> ...
> >>>>>>>>>>> Your claim is completely without support. Since you rely on an
> >>>>>>>>>>> indefensible claim for the rest of your doctrine, your doctrines are not
> >>>>>>>>>>> worth considering.
> >>>>>>>>>> Well, I consider God to be sufficient support. ?If you think He is
> >>>>>>>>>> not, ?go ahead and try to prove it.
> >>>>>>>>>> Robert B. Winn
> >>>>>>>>> Please provide any evidence that any claim ever made about God is true.
> >>>>>>>> Well, there is an earthen ramp that the Assyrian army built to get
> >>>>>>>> over the city wall at Lachish.
> >>>>>>> So? I have built several earthen ramps.
> >>>>>>> Am I then God?
> >>>>>>>> Atheists do not believe in the earthen ramp.
> >>>>>>> well firstly that is false, because I do believe in earthen ramps,
> >>>>>>> having built many, and I am an atheist.
> >>>>>>> And secondly what has the fact that �person B may or may not believe
> >>>>>>> statement X, have to do with the existence, or not, of personality Z?
> >>>>>> God did not build the earthen ramp. �The Assyrian army did. �God would
> >>>>>> have preferred that they did not build it and had left the city of
> >>>>>> Lachish and its inhabitants alone.
> >>>>> Are you saying that God was powerless to stop them?
> >>>> The bible contains enormous mistakes to glorify god yet plainly
> >>>> telling us that god is a useless being.
> >>>> The early Jews who wrote it were not educated, or might be drunk. Yes,
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> >>> Well, as you say, if you think God is a useless being, then you will
> >>> choose to be with the beings you think of as being useful, other
> >>> atheists.
> >> So you concede there are many mistakes or untruths in the Bible then?- Hide quoted text -
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> > Why does it depend on me?   The Bible is what it is.  If you do not
> > like the Bible, read something else.
>
> No answer? I just wanted to know how reliable you thought the Bible was.
> I know it to be full of errors and distortions, just wondered what your
> position on it was. You seem to think it better than other sacred texts
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I think the Bible is very reliable.  The Jews were very meticulous as
far as preserving ancient writings.  For instance, the Dead Sea
scrolls of Isaiah are a good example of how accurately the Bible was
translated.
Robert B. Winn