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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: rbwinn
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:26
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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.
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?
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