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Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Free Lunch
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:32
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:26:53 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwinn3@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?
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From: Free Lunch <lunch@nofreelunch.us>
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Subject: Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
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