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To: daniel1212

The point that a god is impotent in being unable to deliver a precise message that its followers don’t have to squabble over. You don’t need verbose overthinking to see this, just have to make better use of your (presumed to exist) ability to think and analyse.


235 posted on 10/27/2013 8:45:31 AM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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The point that a god is impotent in being unable to deliver a precise message that its followers don’t have to squabble over.

Which is what I perceived, thus my response, as everything must be equally clear, as if ambiguity serves no purpose, but that is your atheistic fallacy. Since believers squabble over meanings in Scripture then you find it contrary to Scripture being Divine, as if it served no warranted purpose, and thus conclude its God is impotent to deliver a precise message, and is contrary to the existence of its God.

Yet while you demand god make things precisely clear, you yourself did not make it clear what the rich irony was that you saw in squabbling over the interpretation of “divine scripture,” and refused 2 requests to clarify that, leaving me to correctly guess, understanding the atheistic mindset. However, in a debate, ascertaining what a opponent meant is warranted.

Yet while you may have had no purpose behind your brevity, yet lack of clarity is not contrary to Scriptures being Divine, nor does it mean its God is not able to deliver a precise message, as He did so no multitude times in Scripture.

Atheists seem to think that if God wanted man to be saved then He would leave no room for misapprehension, yet as seen in Scripture, God is not simply seeking to save souls but for souls which want the Truth of God.

For the Truth of God is like a veiled women, in which basic outward form is evident yet much is hidden, and requires seeking. And which prepares the the heart for proper and appreciative receiving, in contrast to the women who simply bares all to the carnally minded who demand it. And which atheists do who demand God perform for them what they require in order for them to believe.

Thus the Lord often spoke in parables, and then explained them to those who did obey what they did know.

And while you demand God speak precisely in Scripture if He is real, yet God made it exceedingly supernaturally manifest that He was real, and what they were to do, in bringing the Hebrews out of Egypt. There could be no atheist among them (though there are hardly seems any limit to the extent some will go to in order to disallow even the existence of God even as a hypothesis). However, this clarity did not make them all true believers, which only a remnant were.

For it is not the proud and arrogant that seek the Lord, but those who of a poor and contrite heart, who want to obey the light God gives them, who find the Truth, even Christ. And ultimately rejection of Christ, even by rejecting light that would lead to Him, is because men love sin more than Him.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (John 3:19-21)

You don’t need verbose overthinking to see this, just have to make better use of your (presumed to exist) ability to think and analyse.

It is typical of the few atheist i have dealt with to assume a God-like superiority, despite their blindness and refusal to allow any explanation that counters theirs. Which is consistent with worship of self, which atheism leads to.

236 posted on 10/27/2013 5:33:08 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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