[kosta50]

God is not a hypothesis. He lives. His Name is I AM. I've known Him for a half century and counting... The words of God are spirit and life. The words of men are neither spirit nor life...

Thank you A-G. I have a copy of this answer. In fact, it's like any other I asnwer I get from you...same stuff, different number. If you want to make a comment, make a comment in your own words, but cutting and pasting the same lines over an dover gets old.

[Quix]

I have a copy of this answer. In fact, it’s like any other I asnwer I get from you...same stuff, different number. If you want to make a comment, make a comment in your own words, but cutting and pasting the same lines over an dover gets old.

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Oh, rather like the very old & weak relentlessly repetitiously inane and absurd haughty anti-God questions and commentary???

[Quix]

The lack of hypocrisy would be wonderous,

. . . if I could find any such lack.

[betty boop]

If you want to make a comment, make a comment in your own words, but cutting and pasting the same lines over an dover gets old.

Jeepers kosta, it's bad enough that you make yourself the measure of God. Do you require everyone else on the planet to do things "your way?" I.e., nothing can be acceptable to you unless it meets your exact criteria for how it "ought" to be done in your view?

Just wondering....

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for your reply, dear kosta50!

Thank you A-G. I have a copy of this answer. In fact, it's like any other I asnwer I get from you...same stuff, different number. If you want to make a comment, make a comment in your own words, but cutting and pasting the same lines over an dover gets old.

betty boop and I are veterans of Free Republic debates with posters who champion atheistic and agnostic arguments. Indeed, we wrote a book which is a dialogue on those very arguments.

betty boop, marron, Texas Songwriter, P-Marlowe, spirited irish and others have brought many wonderful insights to the debate over the years. And I am honored to be joined with them in the great debate. Their arguments are eloquent, informed, piercing, logical, faithful.

But I am a Christian, plain and simple.

So my first contribution is usually what I posted earlier because I have observed that the presupposition most atheist/agnostic seek to achieve in their arguments is their belief that God is a hypothesis. And from there, they usually admit only whatever evidence is acceptable to a metaphysical naturalist with the ultimate goal being to convince a Christian that God is a delusion.

I give no ground whatsoever to atheists or agnostics' presupposition by simply declaring my testimony: God is not a hypothesis. He lives. His Name is I AM. I've known Him for a half century and counting.

The claim that One I have known so long and so well is a hypothesis is absurd on the face. So I let them know, the conversation will not "go there."

Thereafter, I simply convey the words of God which speak for themselves. The power is in His words, not mine.

For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. - Hebrews 4:12

If my correspondent has "ears to hear" he will. And if he doesn't, he won't believe anyway.

And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. - Deuteronomy 29:2-5

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. - Matthew 13:9

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. – I Cor 2:14

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. – John 6:63

Even when I am convinced the words of God will not register with my correspondent, I nevertheless must convey them and my testimony for the sake of my brothers and sisters in Christ who are engaged in the great debate. After all, they may find something useful in their own testimony.

So despite your objections, I shall continue to "cut and paste" as appropriate.

God's Name is I AM.