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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

#14010
From: BuddyThunder
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:57
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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,
>>>> 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 -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
> 
> 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 
for some reason.
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