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Me: (Thinking to myself, I'm dealing with idiots)
Originally posted by Damien_Hell
The fact is you can't prove god because he/she/it/zork (gender you cant even imagine!) doesn't exist. AND even if he/she/it/zork did exist YOU COULDN'T PROVE ITS YOURS. I see theists try and fail just trying to prove A god, can't wait to see them try to prove their god.
PS: They can't
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
reply to post by 24threever
ok, you use the argument from "if it exists, it must have been made"
well, what about god? what made god?
Originally posted by ppkjjkpp
You say there is no God, I say there is a God. When we die we will find out. If there is no God and I die, then what do I have to worry about. If there is a God and I die, then I'll be in heaven and you'll be in hell. Your choice. Again how can you be so sure there is no God. You can't prove it.
Originally posted by ppkjjkpp
God was always there and always will be.
He's God, he can do anything he wants. If we could understand God in our brains then God wouldn't be much of a God.
You say there is no God, I say there is a God. When we die we will find out.
If there is no God and I die, then what do I have to worry about.
If there is a God and I die, then I'll be in heaven and you'll be in hell.
Your choice. Again how can you be so sure there is no God. You can't prove it.
Would you care to rephrase this as you are making it seem that the whole of the bible is historical truth when it is not. For instance
Originally posted by ppkjjkpp
melatonin and madnessinmysoul
I’m talking about the God of the Bible. The Bible has been proven to be historically correct.
While this is quite true for some there is no evidence for any of the patriarchs nor even for jesus and his cronies
Many persons in the Bible have been discovered,
While I disagree with your percentages, I agree that biblical cities have been discovered although the stories concerning some of these have been found to be wrong i.e Jericho wasn't even inhabited when the supposed walls fell down and jerusalem was just a small town during the glory age of the empire of solomon.
as well, more than 90% of the places mentioned in the Bible have been identified and still exist.
I think many people will disagree with your findings on this one e.g The site states the best guess for the death of jesus to be 29 CE - even John the baptist was still alive at this point (according to Josephus he was killed around 36 CE) therefore making jesus still alive at this point
Also many of the Bible’s prophecies have been fulfilled already and the rest have yet to be fulfilled. If you read the prophecies of the Bible written thousands of years ago, and then look at the world past and today you will know that it is real.
Read this, hauns.com...
You also cannot disprove the Hindu gods, nor the Egyptian, Nordic or Greek gods which I don't suppose that you believe exist which show the fallacy of such a statement.
Again, I can’t prove the God of the Bible and you can’t prove he is not there. If you read the link above you will see what is fast approaching.
Originally posted by shihulud
While I disagree with your percentages, I agree that biblical cities have been discovered although the stories concerning some of these have been found to be wrong i.e Jericho wasn't even inhabited when the supposed walls fell down and jerusalem was just a small town during the glory age of the empire of solomon.
You also cannot disprove the Hindu gods, nor the Egyptian, Nordic or Greek gods which I don't suppose that you believe exist which show the fallacy of such a statement.
Originally posted by tankthinker
if god can do anything, why did he make evil on the earth, to then struggle so hard against it, and if he can do anything why not stop all the suffering in the world,
he successfully made an angel that would betray him, and he cant even defeat him (but hes god he can do anything).
ive often said that if god existed he would strike me down right there and then, guess what, im still up
and when people get diseases and pain i ask them how could you believe in a god when he lets this happen, they reply god meant for me to have this suffering, its a test.
then i totally get it, so you need to suffer as a test, while hundreds of other people just go to church and they instantly get into heaven
and even if everthing in christianity was true, i would rather worship Satan than god.
Originally posted by Damien_Hell
Well there was a thread I got with my "popular threads" email called proving god with logic and critical thinking. This guy said that since he feels happy when he's near a church god is real.....yah. First that has NO logic in it and had little if ANY thinking in it, let alone CRITICAL thinking.
But I regress, heres why its pointless trying to prove god.
A.) There is NO hard scientific evidence of any form of god.
B.) I've heard all the dumb arguments "Its written in creation" "God made it so only those who are willing to believe can see" Blah blah blah. Yet NOWHERE in any of those arguments does it say that its THEIR god. I could easily say "Its written in creation that (whatever god they don't believe in) made it and only those willing to believe can see it" And there goes they're whole argument. The fact is you can't prove god because he/she/it/zork (gender you cant even imagine!) doesn't exist. AND even if he/she/it/zork did exist YOU COULDN'T PROVE ITS YOURS. I see theists try and fail just trying to prove A god, can't wait to see them try to prove their god.
PS: They can't
Where is the evidence for this? I cant remember them ever finding solomons tomb.
Originally posted by ppkjjkpp
reply to post by shihulud
Almost all the tombs of the high priests and kings in the Bible have been dug up.
The fact is there is no credible evidence for the biblical jesus nor his buddies.
It makes sense for the people not of political importance to be found, especially Jesus, since the crowds were yelling to crucify him.
It makes perfect sense that the OT writers would claim this as the events took place well before these parts of the OT were written.
As for the cities mentioned in the Bible, almost all have been discovered. You claim Jericho wasn’t inhabited and Jerusalem was a small town, do you honestly believe the writers of the Bible would write about uninhabited cities? They could have just simply choose any other city if they were just making it up. I don’t think they were that dumb.
The source must have been estimating due to even wikipedia stating that John the Baptist died between 30 CE and 33 CE and Josephus having him die at around 36 CE so unless we have another miracle theres no way jesus was dead in 29 CE.
Even wikipedia agrees that Jesus died at about 30 A.D. Moreover the source was just estimating, stating that we don’t know the exact year.
You tend to forget that the bible is made up of two religions, -the jewish OT and the christian NT, it is the OT that has more historicity than the NT
No I can’t prove that Hindu, Egyptian or Greek Gods are not real. But the Bible supports history and archaeological finds more than any other belief.
There is no evidence to suggest this just as much as the evidence for Nostradamus's prophecies - take the book of daniel for instance, it is thought to have been written in the mid 2nd Century BCE and not in the 6th Century BCE so it would seem the prophecies were written AFTER the events.
The Bible’s prophecies have been proved more accurately than any other and are continuing to be.
Gods cannot be proven period, whether by scientific means or otherwise. What we can do is predict the probability of gods and also prove by scientific means that attributes given to certain gods are false.
Nonetheless, God’s can’t be proved scientifically and you can believe what you want. It’s just as ‘ludicrous’ (how atheists seem to put it) to believe in God as it is to say there is no God.
Here's some evidence for Jesus. www.randallniles.com...