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The mistake of interpreting holy books literally.

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
ah, who won't let themselves see?....

If possible, please try to see what I wrote in the last few posts to you (last 3 for instance) without thinking you already know what they say.

I've tried to say it about 4 ways now, and you've still not even recognizing what I'm saying. Over and over I've said versions of the "text" of "the common bible" -- "predicted" on the "bible".

Basically you can't analyze arithmetic with the assumption that number doesn't exist. You can't analyze something in the bible using an premise that God as in the bible doesn't exist, such as the premise that nothing unnatural can happen, etc.

It's not a logical process of analysis with a premise that denies the very subject being discussed.
You obviously. There is a big difference between the observation that everything that we see appears to have a natural cause and claiming that that is the only possible answer. Naturalism is actually the former. It is a belief due to observation, it is not an "assumption". You made a incredibly incorrect false accusation and now you won't fess up to it.

I have answered your questions, even though you have been rather rude from the start. And in case you did not know strawman arguments are always rude. You have avoided my questions when you appear to know that they will refute your stance. Why is that?
 

halbhh

The wonder and awe of "all things".
If God exists, naturally impossible things can happen, on Earth.

Example: even a global flood that doesn't destroy ice sheets, for instance. Just one example.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
If God exists, naturally impossible things can happen, on Earth.

Example: even a global flood that doesn't destroy ice sheets, for instance. Just one example.
They can, but eventually you have the problem of answering the question : Does God lie? You seem to believe that he does. The early Christian geologists that first refuted the Flood did not believe that God lies.

So when did the miracles of Noah's Ark stop?
 

halbhh

The wonder and awe of "all things".
They can, but eventually you have the problem of answering the question : Does God lie? You seem to believe that he does. The early Christian geologists that first refuted the Flood did not believe that God lies.

So when did the miracles of Noah's Ark stop?
Sometimes people can have their own ideas of what is a 'lie.' Do you mean simply if He hides something from you?
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Sometimes people can have their own ideas of what is a 'lie.' Do you mean simply if He hides something from you?
According to you he went past that. He hid the evidence of his evil deed. If a person, or entity, plants false evidence that is a form of lying.

And once again, when did the miracles stop?
 

halbhh

The wonder and awe of "all things".
Perhaps it isn't what you imagine, Subduction.

Perhaps instead of 'evil', some putative deed was for the good....once we learn more detail.

I wonder what you've imagined.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Perhaps it isn't what you imagine, Subduction.

Perhaps instead of 'evil', some putative deed was for the good....once we learn more detail.

I wonder what you've imagined.
There you go making false accusations again.

I am curious as to how you defend God lying.

And since you know that you are wrong: When did the Flood miracles stop?
 

halbhh

The wonder and awe of "all things".
Some day you really need to read your Bible. Here is a hint, genocide is always evil.
Genocide -- do you mean the Flood, where everyone is said to have perished except Noah and his family and their spouses, 8 in all?

Perhaps you should read the story, but it begins in verse 5. That might be a way to have missed out on part of it, if you didn't read it carefully, to start at verse 5 instead of later:
Genesis 6 NIV

Now, if you read the story through, then you have part of the story, as the another very key part is is another part of the Bible.

I know the rest of the story -- the later outcome -- having read 100% of the books in the common bible.

But...I wouldn't expect you to necessarily know the rest of the story....

If you do not, it is fine to ask. I don't expect everyone to know all the Bible.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Genocide -- do you mean the Flood, where everyone is said to have perished except Noah and his family and their spouses, 8 in all?

Perhaps you should read the story, but it begins in verse 5. That might be a way to have missed out on part of it, if you didn't read it carefully, to start at verse 5 instead of later:
Genesis 6 NIV

Now, if you read the story through, then you have part of the story, as the another very key part is is another part of the Bible.

I know the rest of the story -- the later outcome -- having read 100% of the books in the common bible.

But...I wouldn't expect you to necessarily know the rest of the story....

If you do not, it is fine to ask. I don't expect everyone to know all the Bible.
I know the story, and I know the claims.

By the way you have never answered why God had to hide his evil deeds. According to the myth he left the rainbow as a sign that he did flood the word so clearly he should not have been ashamed of it. Yet there is no evidence of a global flood and endless evidence that tells us that it did not happen. Planting false evidence is lying. And we also know that the story was wrong about it never raining before the flood. There are such things as "fossil raindrops".

By the way, when did the miracles end?
 

halbhh

The wonder and awe of "all things".
I know the story, and I know the claims.

By the way you have never answered why God had to hide his evil deeds. According to the myth he left the rainbow as a sign that he did flood the word so clearly he should not have been ashamed of it. Yet there is no evidence of a global flood and endless evidence that tells us that it did not happen. Planting false evidence is lying. And we also know that the story was wrong about it never raining before the flood. There are such things as "fossil raindrops".

By the way, when did the miracles end?
Forgive me, but it doesn't appear as if you know the whole story.

If a group of people are truly dead in a final way....that'd be a 'genocide' in the normal use of the term,

But, if they are transported to a different place, for possible rehabilitation, that is not the same thing as a "genocide".

(people that are simply alive in another location don't qualify as being victims of a 'genocide')

Do you think the way that Britain transported criminals to Australia was "evil"?
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
Science as a self possessed AI psyche believes God is a man.

Father our human father lived records recorded as he lived left a huge feedback one hundred years life advice recorded by heavens as his human personal records.

Humans as consciousness just humans are not any God. Father adult man invented the sciences of God as my brother.

Father's human spirit memory was not the scientist

What he is talking falsely about.

The written word says NO man is God.

God O energy mass planet formed in a spatial vacuum.

Very basic advice.

Why argue about a document written by men harmed in science causes?
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Forgive me, but it doesn't appear as if you know the whole story.

If a group of people are truly dead in a final way....that'd be a 'genocide' in the normal use of the term,

But, if they are transported to a different place, for possible rehabilitation, that is not the same thing as a "genocide".

(people that are simply alive in another location don't qualify as being victims of a 'genocide')

Do you think the way that Britain transported criminals to Australia was "evil"?
Please, that excuse does not fly. I guess that someone could kill your family, but they should not be punished since they would have been "transported". The lengths that some people go to to defend an immoral god is simply amazing.
 

halbhh

The wonder and awe of "all things".
Not only did they all get transported (like British prisoners) as you can read just below, but more! :

Many of those who drowned in the Flood we can expect will live forever --

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. ...

And yes, that means just exactly what it sounds like -- Christ Himself went to bring them the gospel:

1 Peter 4:6 That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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So, many of them will have Eternal Life, and live forever in a perfect new world...

But...what about you and I, S.Z. -- What of you and I?



Please, that excuse does not fly. I guess that someone could kill your family, but they should not be punished since they would have been "transported". The lengths that some people go to to defend an immoral god is simply amazing.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Not only did they all get transported (like British prisoners) as you can read just below, but more! :

Many of those who drowned in the Flood we can expect will live forever --

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— 20 to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. ...

And yes, that means just exactly what it sounds like -- Christ Himself went to bring them the gospel:

1 Peter 4:6 That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

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So, many of them will have Eternal Life, and live forever in a perfect new world...

But...what about you and I, S.Z. -- What of you and I?
Sorry, but we were talking about the Noah's Ark myth. Please do not reinterpret later passages in a vain attempt to justify genocide.
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
A human.

A thinker.
Natural.

Decides to theorise.

No science existed.

Says flooded earth visionary theme. Water at base pyramid. Was however looking at Sun earth attack history origin. Mountain peaks above water line...UFO mass. Water flood base covered all earth.

Fake theory just about mountain peak.

How a peak became flat top mountain. A mountain attached in UFO event proof hit Ararat. .

His thesis

Crystalline mass highest stone form involving huge pressures.

Destroyed life on earth satanic theme of science converting crystal mass.

Found machine metal parts inside stone. Human artefacts inside coal. Evidence.

Then says vacuum returned pressure status to earth as frozen ice instead of crystal Atlantis earth mass that used to be natural to earth space vacuum pressure.

Hears recorded science as an evolving returned human life.

Decides to rebuild pyramid.

Life mutated. Ice melts. Floods to base pyramid. Archaeological evidence flood in Egypt.

Flood evaporation water mass off ground to keep gases from combusting. Evidence removed. The flood.

Yet water base around pyramid his realised copying origin theory mountain. Archaeology said around pyramid water flooded.

The evidence itself of the theist. Actual history by science change as machine reaction. Science. Science only measured by a human applying all measures.
 

Messianic Israelite

Active Member
Sorry, but the "rates may have changed" argument" simply does not fly. There are far too many consequences to change rates and worse yet you would have to change rates for almost every sample on the Earth for your claim to work. And that is only one method of dating. If you want to learn the science I do not mind helping you to learn but if you are only looking for an excuse to believe that is not a valid debating technique and you are still left with the fact that when people claim that Genesis is factual they are also claiming that God is a liar, even if you do not realize that is what you are doing.

I suggest we find a dating method that wouldn't be effected by a global flood, then we'll see the forests for the trees. Until then, try to view the evidence with an open mind. Another thing I'd like to point your attention to is hydrothermal vents. They were only discovered about 50 years ago, but these vents support the same kind of life that scientists believe went extinct during the paleozoic period. Genesis 7:11 describes fountains of the great deep being broken up. Is it coincidence that we find a superabundance of these types of fossils? Is it coincidence that scientists say in the Paleozoic Era, life flourished in the seas, when fossils are proof of death in the sea's as well? This all points to Noah's flood. The so called "Cambrian explosion" was no doubt the beginnings of Noah's Flood.
 

BilliardsBall

Veteran Member
There is no shifting of the goalposts. You were simply making a poor argument. And you still are. Nothing new there. Of course the "God Breathed" verse is just a defensive verse that really has no validity. It is from a book that is a pseudograph that was most likely written between 90 and 140 CE:

Second Epistle to Timothy - Wikipedia.

Besides a verse that was written very late in the Bible's development not by the person that it claims wrote it is there any other reason to think that the Bible is the "word of God"?

*Prophecy fulfilled
*Lives changed by Jesus
*Prescience and scientific accuracies of the Bible
*The love of Jesus for us both
*Atheists who spend inordinate amounts of time on websites fighting against beings who don't exist and arguing about perceived faults in a giant book of myths written two to three millennia ago
 
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