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Two Atheists Were Arguing. So Who Won The Argument?
JAG 5000
Posted on 06/25/2020 12:27:52 PM PDT by JAG 5000
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To: A_perfect_lady
Who or what is perfect created within space and time?
To: rollo tomasi
Well, if you have a perfect God, it shouldn’t be a problem. I mean, he created Space and Time, didn’t he?
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posted on
06/26/2020 2:21:57 PM PDT
by
A_perfect_lady
(The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
To: A_perfect_lady
More like exercised ex nihilo and was “perfect” with the outcome.
To: rollo tomasi
The outcome doesn’t look perfect from here any more than those protests looked peaceful.
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posted on
06/26/2020 3:53:41 PM PDT
by
A_perfect_lady
(The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
To: Heartlander
Quite a parody (as far as i understand it.) Thy great learning hath made many atheists mad.
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posted on
06/27/2020 7:59:15 AM PDT
by
daniel1212
(Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
To: Vendome; Secret Agent Man; BipolarBob; Boogieman; JAG 5000
Epicurus [maybe] If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good. If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist?
The author is engaging in a false dilemma, a false either/or dichotomy, ignoring any alternative to his assertions, for they presuppose a definition of good and evil - and in which which an omnipotent omniscient being must be the supreme judge - and being both willing and able to prevent evil does not mean that what is objectively evil cannot be allowed in order to work for good.
The presumption that a omniscient and omnipotent, just and merciful Being was unjust in allowing evil or in sending judgments presumes omniscience and omnipotence on the part of the one who is judging God (not that I am not guilty of that, at least as a emotional yet irrational reaction). For to be evil presumes that such was not justly warranted in the light of what it would accomplish, not simply in this life but for eternity. And only the God of the Bible knows what all the effects of even our next breath will be - not only for this life life but for eternity - and can and will make it all work for the good of those who love God, and thus the Good. (Rm. 8:28)
And an omniscient and omnipotent Being is able to accomplish His plan without forcing man to go against his will, as intolerable as that can be to some whose knowledge is less in this realm than a cave man trying to code a software program in dim light that would run the Pentagon which he never heard about.
Finally, God gives all that is good, and His command for creation to worship Him as the infinite omniscient and omnipotent being who cannot fail, is unselfish, for God does not need anything, (Acts 17:25) and to worship perfection is only right and to the benefit of man, who actually causes God grief. But rather than wipe man out again and again, God spared not His own Son to save us, and who himself loved us and gave Himself for us, that we may live thru Him, thanks and glory be to God!
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:44:20 AM PDT
by
daniel1212
(Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
To: Heartlander; Vendome; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; fishtank; boatbums; Luircin; mitch5501; ..
"My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying that it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist--in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless--I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality--namely my idea of justice--was full of sense. Consequently atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning." C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pp. 38-39. Well-reasoned. Thanks.
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:44:42 AM PDT
by
daniel1212
(Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
To: JAG 5000
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:43:15 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Vendome
Clinton would ask about the meaning of the four words: 'IS' here.
Seems more correct to say 'IF'.
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:47:53 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Heartlander
Let’s teach dim yutes LOGIC 101 first.
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:48:50 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Vendome
If out of the vast machine our universe was created by math, which we are now discovering, who created that math which rules the universe?Well; there ARE some explanations that just don't add up!
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:52:55 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: HippyLoggerBiker
Evolutionists have a problem:
Which came first?
The vagina or the penis?
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:54:09 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Secret Agent Man
If people won’t comment on my tagline; why do I have it?
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:56:05 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: daniel1212
Epicurus [maybe] If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good. If God is both willing and able to prevent evil, then why does evil exist? I see you noticed the IS-IF thing; too.
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posted on
06/27/2020 12:57:28 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
they’ve got bigger problems than this
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posted on
06/27/2020 1:00:38 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Secret Agent Man
Probably; but they either have one or the other of them; so it’s gets down to a mighty personal level to think about.
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posted on
06/28/2020 5:18:25 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
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posted on
06/28/2020 2:21:26 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Vendome
You have no proof of that!
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posted on
06/29/2020 4:55:55 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
“equally” neither do you....LOL
I love word games...
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posted on
06/29/2020 11:29:58 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: A_perfect_lady
By not creating such flawed creatures in the first place. Since you seem (by your post) that you do not believe, how do you define love? Can love be given, or taken, by force?
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posted on
06/29/2020 11:45:45 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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