Yes I was a Baptist for 9 years. In UK not as strict and conservative as US Baptist but still Bible believing.
Posts by cofty
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25Has anyone here joined a different church after ditching the JWs?
by NikL ini am just curious.. i have a cousin who is a baptist and his church streams their sunday services and i've been checking them out before i go to meeting with my jw wife.. i haven’t been to a church except for the occasional funeral and wedding and the only sermons i had heard were the tel-evangelist type.
anyway, all the church bashing by jws over the years made me unsure what to expect and i was pleasantly surprised.
they do use the bible and they don't spend the whole time begging for money.
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2 Peter 1 = Deity of Christ.
by towerwatchman in2 peter 1 = deity of christ.
2 pe.
1:1 simon peter, a bondservant and apostle of jesus christ, .
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cofty
Rather than argue about which of the three versions of the ten commandments are authoritative let's focus on my post before that one on the basis of objective morality.
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2 Peter 1 = Deity of Christ.
by towerwatchman in2 peter 1 = deity of christ.
2 pe.
1:1 simon peter, a bondservant and apostle of jesus christ, .
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cofty
Exodus 34 is specifically described by Moses as the "Ten Words". Read the chapter in its entirety. It's quite clear.
I'm surprised somebody who claims to have read the Bible didn't know that.
I'm what way is a law against boiling a kid in its mothers milk one of the top ten moral edicts in human history?
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This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe
by cofty insometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.
various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.
i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.
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cofty
Atheism = I find the claims that Christians make about the world to be unconvincing. In the OP I described 9 examples of my reasons.
Nobody speaks for atheism. Least of all Neitzsche.
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2 Peter 1 = Deity of Christ.
by towerwatchman in2 peter 1 = deity of christ.
2 pe.
1:1 simon peter, a bondservant and apostle of jesus christ, .
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cofty
our moral duties originated from God's commandments such as the 10 Commandments - towerwatchman
Which version of the ten commandments do you base your morality on, the Elohist version at Exodus 20 or the Yahwist version at Exodus 34?
The first version is the best known but the latter is the only one called the "ten words" in the bible.
Exodus 20 ...
1. I am Yahweh your god; you shall not have other gods before my face!
2. You shall not make for yourself a statue or an image.
3. You shall not swear falsely by the name Yahweh, your god
4. Remember the Sabbath day.
5. Honor your father and your mother.
6. You shall not murder.
7. You shall not commit adultery.
8. You shall not steal.
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10. You shall not covet you neighbor’s house.
Exodus 34 ...
1. You shall not bow down to another god; for Yahweh is a jealous god!
2. You shall not make molten gods for yourself.
3. You shall observe the festival of Unleavened bread.
4. You shall redeem every first born of your sons!
5. You shall observe the Sabbath.
6. You shall make a festival of Weeks.
7. Three times a year every male shall appear before Yahweh, god of Israel.
8. You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice on leavened bread.
9. You shall bring the firstfruits of your land to the house of Yahweh your god.
10. You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.
And Yahweh said to Moses: “Write these words for yourself, because I’ve made a covenant with you and with Israel based on these words.” And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words (Ex 34:27-28)
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2 Peter 1 = Deity of Christ.
by towerwatchman in2 peter 1 = deity of christ.
2 pe.
1:1 simon peter, a bondservant and apostle of jesus christ, .
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cofty
towerwatchman - Thanks for your reply.
A world in which Nazis don't get to gas millions of innocent people because of their race, is objectively better than Germany of the 30s. The well-being of conscious creatures is a useful basis for objective morality that does not require an ultimate law-giver.
Your proposal that morality needs to be rooted in god doesn't work. How would any of us ever know whether a particular action is a moral good or not? If we follow the bible we would have to conclude that slavery and infanticide is a moral good.
I think in reality christians mostly make moral judgements on the same consequential basis as atheists do. Theists them pretend post hoc that their judgements are approved by the almighty. God is the ultimate sock-puppet.
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This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe
by cofty insometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.
various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.
i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.
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cofty
John I can't imagine there is anything useful to say that you haven't said a dozen times already.
Everything you have written makes the nine points in my OP even more convincing.
"God is not a magician" is perhaps the most amazing thing I have ever read in this forum.
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2 Peter 1 = Deity of Christ.
by towerwatchman in2 peter 1 = deity of christ.
2 pe.
1:1 simon peter, a bondservant and apostle of jesus christ, .
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cofty
Outside of God there cannot be objective meaning
That's a big claim.
Do you feel like defending it?
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This is What I Would Need in Order to Believe
by cofty insometimes theists challenge atheists about what evidence would be required before they would believe.
various unlikely scenarios are offered in reply.
i have taken the bait myself in the past.. i think the correct answer is much more ordinary.
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cofty
You quote the bible when it suits you. You might not be sola scriptura but you can't disown the bible whenever it doesn't work for you.
The only theological assumptions I am making is that there is a god who made all things, who is the epitome of love and goodness, who is active in the world and who desires a relationship with humans.
For the nine reasons I gave in my OP I find this story totally unconvincing.
99% of what you have written in the last 24 pages misses this simple point.
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Reasoned With A JW Yesterday
by pale.emperor inhad a great chat with a jw on my door yesterday.
girl 1: .... i dont think you would.
me: ________, and say hi to my uncle ________ for me.. girl 1: i will.
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cofty
Excellent reasoning. You have given them something to reflect on later. I hope they do check out JWFacts.