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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: BuddyThunder
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:40
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rbwinn wrote:
> On Jul 4, 8:37�pm, hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jul 4, 11:32 pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
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>>> 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 -
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>> - 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?
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