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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
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by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

They trust that God has the answer
Since the most fundamental claim of xtianity is contradicted by objective reality what basis could there be for claiming that the god of Jesus exists?
You are putting the dilemma arse-backwards.
First present evidence that the god of Jesus - the god who is love - exists then and only then you can address the problem of natural evil.
Since there is no evidence for the god of Jesus and the facts of reality contradict the most fundamental claims about this god, you are left with nothing.
Or maybe orphaned children of the tsunami just take themselves too seriously.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

SBF - Have you backed away from your earlier assertion that victims just take their themselves 'too seriously'?
Or have you just thought better of saying again? It is undoubtedly the most callous thing I have ever read on this forum.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

A first cause might be the God of Christianity. - SBF
No the god of xtian theism is immanent. You don't get to confuse deism and theism. You already know how dishonest that is.
Really believing this means believing that God knows the reason for things even if we don't know or can't know
Exactly as an abuse wife keeps faith with her husband every time he beats her black-and-blue and tells her how it's her fault.
Eventually some new unexpected evidence emerges to reverse the guilty verdict.
No reasonable answer has been offered in 2000 years. Jesus had none, the bible has nothing, theologians have nothing but self-contradictory platitudes. The history of life on earth shrieks that xtians don't know what they are talking about.
Your answer is LITERALLY vacuous.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

To argue that a god of love is responsible for the pain and suffering from natural causes is less clear. If you believe in the OT view that God causes drought as punishment, he brings the rain, he causes the sun to stay in the sky ... he has a direct hand in natural events then the argument is good. Not everyone who believes in a god of love holds to that view. - Earnest
The god of xtian theism - the NT god and father of Jesus - is in complete control of planet earth. He designed it with moving and sticking tectonic plates. He observed pressure build for centuries prior to December 2004, and when it finally let go he remained in complete control of the consequences.
If a man plants landmines around a village and issues no warnings there would be no ambiguity about his responsibility for the death and injury that ensues.
My own belief, for what it is worth, is that there probably as a first cause which we could call god but everything else about god is a matter of faith.
And here we get to the heart of the problem. I have made it very clear I am discussing the god of xtian theism but you have been defending the couldn't-care-less deity of deism.
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Suggestions for bookreading
by CitizenofEarth in
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2. bible
i just read the "atheists book of bible stories" by fred titanich, and i rather enjoyed it.

alot indeed.

do you have any suggestions for books that touches the same subject?
cofty

Whose Word is it? by Bart Ehrman is an interesting read.
Also 'God's Problem' by the same author.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

How did we get here from the OP question: "Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
Because Earnest thought he would have a go at the challenge of the tsunami thread on there rather than address it directly over there. Then SBF waded in with bullshit he has already raised over there and had answered in full.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

As it happens this friend of cofty and his wife practice BDSM
No you don't get to change the illustration.
The man beats his wife mercilessly against her will. He also beats his children black-and-blue.
This is irreconcilable with the belief that he is a loving husband in exactly the same way that murdering a quarter of a million men, women and children in a tsunami, over which he had complete control, is irreconcilable with being a loving god.
Every possible explanation fails because it contradicts other 'truths' about the god of xtian theism.
As I said apologetics is like the small print in a fraudulent contract. Thanks for demonstrating that.
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TRUE SCRIPTURE EXISTS, A LIVING ONE
by venus in
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2. bible
i find three categories of people according to the way they display their human qualities—(1) more than humans, (2) less than humans and (3) mixed in those qualities in varying degrees.. when i observe how they are all faring with their choices, it tells me what i should do and what i should not do.

hence my scripture is the mankind and letters are living human beings—present and past.

though it is not possible to see beyond an individual’s birth, i can see the history of nations (collective individuals) beyond their present generation into their past, through many generations which shows how their past deeds contributed to their present reality.
cofty

Mother Teresa was an odious hag.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

Even if your facts were true in anything more than the very limited sense
This is exactly why I detest theology. It's like the small print in a dishonest contract.
If I considered a friend to be a loving husband but then I discovered that he repeatedly beat his wife I have a dilemma. I can insist that beating your wife is compatible with being a loving husband, even though I am incapable of offering an explanation, or I can accept that there is an impossible contradiction and revise my opinion about my erstwhile friend.
Only one of these options is not obtuse.
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Do Jehovah's Witnesses Accept Evolution?
by jukief in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
by evolution or by creation?

by evolution or by creation?

"the bible is a myth" and "evolution is true".
cofty

Both arguments are subjective
Not so.
Objective fact 1 = xtians believe that their god is love and that love has to do with actions that promote the well being of others.
Objective fact 2 = xtians believe that their god was in complete control of the tsunami that randomly killed a quarter of a million men, women and children.
These two objective facts are irreconcilable.
Therefore the god of xtian thsim does not exist.
Nothing subjective about that.