I guess it takes one to know one.
The Ten Commandments, inscribed in stone, as “dictation”? I was not speaking of ten commandments inscribed in stone.
I never mentioned the Ten Commandments. Reading comprehension issues? Someone who is familiar with the Bible would immediately recognize that I spoke of the entire Law (the Torah), which was dictated to Moses word by word. If you don't know that, I suggest further reading. You ought to know what you believe in...
I was speaking of the writing of the many books of Holy Scripture.
The Jews will take issue with you on that, since only the Major Prophets are considered "inspired". Besides, the Jews insist that everything that was written after the Law was dictated to Moses by God, is basically a repetition of what's in the Law.
”to get to” huh. Where did you get the idea for that tortured interpretation? Errantskeptics.org? Citation please.
Never heard of the site, but thanks anyway. Citation? Get through, arrive at, etc. all the same thing. He went form Tyre to Sidon to reach Galilee. That's like going from Savannah to Richmond to reach Orlando.
Pathetic.
Waste of bandwidth.
You’re not certain?
Oh I am certain that you are not credible. I was asking if you knew that too.
Apparently you doubt the credibility of yours, since you voice no objection to my observation
If I voiced objection to everything you write I wild be writing a book...So I pick and choose some of the more glaring "pearls" you commit to writing.
It seems, then, that Dawkins has a very large contradiction to explain.
Only to someone with reading comprehension issues. He neither tries nor claims that God can be provoen a true or a delusion by scientific means; he states God's existence cannot be provren or disproven by any means; he states that the probability is small in his opinion that God (as we define him) exists, and he also shows that God-arguments have huge logical and scientific holes in them.
I reject your insistence that “fairy tales” are central to Biblical Instruction and must be accepted as a common assumption. We share neither common assumptions, nor anything like them. Discussion is not possible.
That's why I gave you the opportunity to save face and have the last word, but you tried to turn my generous offer into something else. In other words "You take what I say in one context and then propose the response in another context." In other words, you did the very thing you accused me of. Typical porpangadist.
If we have nothing to discuss, if any discourse is "impossible", then why do you persist? I gave you a chance the end this "discussion" and you threw it away only to admit there is nothing to discuss. That's rather stupid, imo.
FWIW, I looked up the site, and it's a misnomer (bait?). There is nothing skeptical about it, LOL.
It’s funny that you should find this site so unfamiliar. Going to post #1701and using your expression, “going to Sidon to get to Galilee,” the second entry I came across is errantskeptics.org. It must be, then, that Mark 7:31 is generally material for scripture scoffers?
“I never mentioned the Ten Commandments”
The only instance of which I am aware where the word of God is directly dictated and inscribed in stone. Even the relating of that story is part of divinely inspired (“Divinely breathed into”) Holy Scripture. That you would regard it as “dictation” is hardly surprising. For a materialist no further understanding is possible.
“Citation?”
Scripture and translation. Comprehension issues?
“Get through, arrive at, etc. all the same thing.”
“Does that include “to get to” and “to reach”? “All the same thing” in any context?
(Dawkins)“neither tries nor claims that God can be proven a true or a delusion by scientific means”
“I think that it (the existence of a supernatural creator, a God) is a scientific question. My answer is no.”
“If we have nothing to discuss, if any discourse is "impossible", then why do you persist?”
Why do you ask? You’ve encouraged me to continue. Now again, here you are begging for the last word. Very well, you may have the last word.
“That's why I gave you the opportunity to save face and have the last word, but you tried to turn my generous offer into something else
Generous offer? “Hasta la vista, baby” is a generous offer? Oh, I see.
From your post # 1698 - “Me begging for the last word? LOL! Never. Please continue, by all means!”
”Continue”? means “end it”? Hoo wooda thunk. Typical of the propagandist, you forget the last moment and think not of the next moment in your effort to deal with the present moment.
“That's rather stupid, imo.”
Demeaning a poster. That would be sufficient to send you whining to the RM. I will simply shrug, and consider the source.