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To: DaveLoneRanger
Logical fallacy: Argument from Authority (argumentum ad verecundiam).

What about the usual argument from Biblical "authority"? The Bible says so, the Bible was written by/inspired by God, and therefore that is all one needs to know?

That is the argument made by creationists, IDists, and Noah's Flood believers.

130 posted on 02/20/2006 8:46:34 AM PST by thomaswest (Just curious)
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To: thomaswest
....and Noah's Flood believers.
 

Kinda like THESE guys???
 
 

NIV Matthew 24:37-44
 37.  As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
 38.  For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
 39.  and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
 40.  Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.
 41.  Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
 42.  "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
 43.  But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.
 44.  So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.
 
 
 
NIV Luke 17:26-30
 26.  "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man.
 27.  People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
 28.  "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
 29.  But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
 30.  "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
 
 
 
NIV Hebrews 11:7
 7.  By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
 
 
 
NIV 1 Peter 3:18-22
 18.  For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,
 19.  through whom  also he went and preached to the spirits in prison
 20.  who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
 21.  and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
 22.  who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand--with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
 
 
 
NIV 2 Peter 2:4-9
 4.  For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,  putting them into gloomy dungeons  to be held for judgment;
 5.  if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
 6.  if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
 7.  and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
 8.  (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
 9.  if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.

186 posted on 02/20/2006 10:12:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: thomaswest

Here's my problem with that: Unless God came to you directly and told you personally that the Bible is his word, you are putting your faith in the word of other men. Period.


301 posted on 02/20/2006 12:10:05 PM PST by stands2reason (It's now 2006, and two wrongs still don't make a right.)
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