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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:00
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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,
> >> more drunk than wake.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > 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.
Robert B. Winn
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From: rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com>
Newsgroups: sci.physics,cam.misc,alt.sci.physics,alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:00:55 -0700 (PDT)
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