yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
In this debate you have failed to move the indomitable Cofty away from his mission.
I never thought for a moment that Cofty was to be moved from his mission. But it's a forum which others will read and decide for themselves whether Cofty's arguments are valid.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
But faced with the monumental scale of grief of an Asian tsunami you resort to the pathetic excuse of what was the point of preventing one natural disaster. HYPOCRITE!
Calm down Cofty. Your atheistic righteous indignation is probably bad for you.
Yet again you are misquoting me. I never asked what the point would have been of preventing one natural disaster. As with all your other groundless assertions the unbiased reader simply needs to read what I wrote to confirm this.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
I said "you and other aplogists on this thread". So the "you" that follows is plural and general.
Try reading before you rant.
If I said I accuse you AND every other xyz of action abc, I think you would expect to see some evidence that you had indeed engaged in action abc.
Try thinking before you write and rant.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
You witter on enlessly about gentle Jesus, meek and mild and how loving and compasisonate he was. According to you he was moved with pity at the sight of a leper, a cripple or a widow - a real visceral reaction to human suffering and he took action to stop the grief. Cofty
It truly amazes me how you make these many assertions that I've said certain things that I haven't even come close to saying.
Where did I say this even once, never mind about "endlessly"?
We are probably getting into double digits as to the number of times that you have accused me of saying things when I most certainly have not. What is the point of doing that? Any reader can check back and see that you are presenting verifyably false accusations. How does that strengthen your position? It just exposes that you are prepared to make things up without a second thought.
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
Flamegrilled I invited you twice yesterday to lay out the big picture. I said "the stage is yours". The only thing I asked is that you be succint and don't use it as an excuse to preach.
It's an unreasonable request. The big picture is not succinct, and if I give it to you I would be preaching.
If a Christian went to Dawkins and said - I don't believe in evolution, but I'm prepared to hear you out. The only thing I ask is that you prove it in less than 100 words, and don't use a tone that offends my Christian sensibilities.
Do you think he'd give them the time of day?
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
Most of your evasive posts appear to be an attempt to take the thread off-topic.
Well an unbiased reader can be the judge of that.
PS: Simon has pointed out the error in your view of how the bible portrays the Israelite/Christian god.
You mean where he says the bible describes a ...
phsycotic xenophobic murdering monster.
It's just Hitchens/Harris rhetoric with added vitriol. Again, an unbiased reader of the Bible can easily see for themselves that it's not the case.
morris in italy, january 5, 2014. http://forum.infotdgeova.it/viewtopic.php?p=281371#p281371.
BH - thanks for taking the time to relay some of that. I'd be interested to hear more on the rest if you have time later.
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yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
The snag is that the bible portrays this god as unloving and vengeful. The Gladiator
I simply disagree of course.
I don't think it's difficult for someone who knows their Bible to cherry pick passages to present God in this way. But it is not a fair or accurate reflection of God as presented in the Bible as a whole.
The Watchtower Society's, with all its faults, does at least have answers as to why the Christian god acts as it does, why it does not intervene in disasters, and what it wants from humans. You have typed so many words, yet arrived nowhere.
I find the WT answers to be incomplete. Therefore as a logical argument to theism I don't choose to use them. As far as where I've personally arrived you have no way of knowing since that was not what this thread was about. I simply have pointed out the logical flaws in Cofty's assertions. If I turn this thread into why I personally believe in the God of the Bible then I would (rightly) be accused of taking the thread off-topic.
now playing at kdfc.com.
interesting that dvorak's symphony no.
9 was voted to the number two spot .
My favorite is Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. It's very moving emotionally. Oubliette
yesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
If the tsunami is an act of love how do we determine what love is? Cofty
I already dealt with this multiple times. You are the one trying to logically conclude that the tsunami must be an act of love, not me.
Not every action or inaction taken in isolation should be used to interpret the characteristics of a person.
Again you are all very excited about the 250K figure. But whether it is 250 trillion, or it is only 1, the question remains the same. Collectively all of God's perceived inaction to natural disasters over millenia form a single question, not multiple questions. Either there is a reason for it, or there is not.
