nPeace
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You can start in this thread The Bible - Why Trust It.Confirmed how?
So the different opinions on evolution makes it obsolete nonsense....It's what many people who claims to follow the bible and that it contains "the truth" say. Basically, all the others that claim it contains a different "truth" have got it wrong. The number of totally different interpretations of what it says, it solid evidence that it contains no coherent message at all.
Is that an assumption, or a question, or both.So you didn't bother to look at the evidence then?
I read everything you posted... before you posted it. What's new? Nothing.
Then we are both in the same boat... looking for evidence and reason, and not seeing any.Where is it? I haven't seen a hint of any evidence or reasoning in your posts yet...
I did more than that. What do you want me to do now... beat you over the head until you see?Nobody - and I didn't say that they did. Humanity has invented and believed in thousands of gods, and what I said was, if your god happens (amongst all the candidates) to exist, then....
You have yet to provide even a hint of a reason to think there is one that is "true and living".
That's not so.No - but what it does tell us is that there is no clear message from any god to humanity.
It tells you that? How?
Huh?Well you seem to want to ask the question about the universe, in order to try to get people to believe in your favourite deity, and it's you who keeps banging on about "the truth" - suddenly, as soon as it's a bit inconvenient to your narrative, we "puny" humans can't possibly know....
What questions do I ask about the universe?
What I want to believe? I asked you. You didn't answer. That's a confirmation that the answer is obvious.There you go again - ah but wait!
So as soon as you get to what you want to believe, suddenly, you stop asking questions or thinking about it.
Want to try again?
Here we go.
If there is a beginning, would the beginning have had a beginning?
If the beginning is able to plan, must the beginning also be intelligent?
Sorry Skepticism may not be terrible, but it must demonstrate open-mindednessWhat evidence and what investigations?
I have not seen that.
Open-minded? No.You said:I'm sure lots of people in the past have known lots of things that are true but "The Truth" about how and why everything exists - no. I don't think anybody ever has or probably ever will. I see no merit at all in the incoherent myths of the bible.
See above, anyway.
Yes. Thinking too much foolishness is not recommended for Christians, We are encouraged to reject foolish ideas and reasoning.Yes, from what you've said, thinking too much would probably be a bit of a problem for your variety of Christian.
I don't know how you arrived at that.I see no evidence or any other reason to think that there is intelligence and it wouldn't be an answer to anything fundamental if there were.
You seem to be very interested in asking lots of questions until you get to what you want to believe and then just switching off your brain....
You are making statement, but they are not supported by truth. They are simply statements made at whim... it seems. That's not because you have already switched off your brain... is it?