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To: angryoldfatman
It seems Mr. Bennett now affirms the existence of God, if the video which he invited us to see affirms Gods existence and never denies his existence. Over and over Mr Bennett's video references God of the Hebrews as omnipotent and omniscient.

Mr. Bennett seems to have gone dark. Perhaps he is busy and we will hear froml him soon.

80 posted on 05/01/2011 1:58:14 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter ( ma)
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To: Texas Songwriter; kosta50; LeGrande
It seems Mr. Bennett now affirms the existence of God, if the video which he invited us to see affirms Gods existence and never denies his existence. Over and over Mr Bennett's video references God of the Hebrews as omnipotent and omniscient.

Let this serve as a notice to let you know that what you opine from my referencing of that video, is in error. I do not affirm the existence of any deity simply because I am referencing its qualities and attitudes as accepted by the believers in such deities. My point in referencing that video was just this - to bring to light the morality of the deity under question - as to how a child-killing god can be moral. That is all. This should have been abundantly clear and your extrapolation is not only strange, but self-defeating as well. It brings to question whether you're capable of interpretation and comprehension at all, quite frankly.

Now why don't I accept deities as entities that cannot exist? Let us look at the First Cause argument - one of the cornerstones of the "explanations" given out for why a God must exist. What should the primary quality of such an entity be? It should be timeless - that is, time has no influence on it. What else? It cannot perform an absurdity that contradicts itself.

So, assume you have this God who always existed. How does this God, from its vantage point initiate anything if it has no reference to anchor that initiation on? What did God do to begin its first act? God existed before God began its act.

Next, we have the impossibility of a God which orders sequential events (create Universe, then destroy it, think of Creation, then go about to initiate it, etc - things that require a separation) to be outside the realm of time. If no time existed for God, then two events initiated by God would happen simultaneously - thus, God would have not yet created and created the Universe at the same moment. This is an absurdity.

Lastly, it's funny to see how anyone can assume that David's illegitimate child, made to suffer for a week with agony, and then have its life snuffed out of it, can assume that the child ascended into "heaven". This is what the Old Testament has to say about bastards:

"A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD." - Deut. 23:2

85 posted on 05/01/2011 2:35:11 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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