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To: kosta50; TXnMA; MHGinTN; xzins; betty boop; James C. Bennett; MarkBsnr
me: On the first point, it should be clear to you by now that I will never yield the rules of engagement to anyone who has suggested that God is a hypothesis or a pink unicorn.

you: And I will never yield to your assertion that something is a fact simply because you believe it is.

Not allowing you to dictate the rules of engagement entails not allowing you to control the dictionary.

How do you know the "uncaused" cause was uncaused?

Please refer back to the exercise at 363, i.e. space/time precedes physical causation therefore the cause of space/time cannot be "in" space/time (physical, thing, event, caused.)

On the last point, the Targum is not translation but interpretation. The interpretation of men is interesting but not determinative to me.

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you. – Deuteronomy 4:2

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. - I John 2:27

God's Name is I AM.

495 posted on 01/20/2011 6:25:58 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; TXnMA; MHGinTN; xzins; betty boop; James C. Bennett; MarkBsnr
Not allowing you to dictate the rules of engagement entails not allowing you to control the dictionary

What does dictionary have to do with it? Since when does dictionary determine if God is a hypothesis or a fact? My comment was about you presenting your beliefs as "proof" of God's existence.

space/time precedes physical causation therefore the cause of space/time cannot be "in" space/time (physical, thing, event, caused.)

That is a theory, not a fact. How do you know there was no time or space? Science has been wrong almost as often as it was right. Not so long ago, medical science denied the pathogenic basis of the disease. Guess what? It had to eat crow—with feathers!

Just because today's scientists believe in the Big Bang and quantum mathematicians "prove" on their blackboards that space/time did not exist, or because a book says God created in the "beginning", or because someone believes there are pink unicorns on Jupiter does not make it a fact.

503 posted on 01/20/2011 10:02:11 AM PST by kosta50 ("Spirit of Spirit...give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again" -- Mithral prayer)
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