Message to 1robin: I have finally decided to stop debating at this forum, maybe for a while, and maybe for good. It has nothing to do with your posts, but with making the best use of my time.
Some people think that I am a debating tiger, but actually, I am a very peaceful person, I do not...
I am interested in the passage that I mentioned, not in the historicity of Jesus. If Jesus existed, that would not necessarily mean that Paul wrote the passage, and that the passage was written in the first century A.D. I am interested in why the apostles believed that they saw Jesus after he...
You continue to defend the historical Jesus even though I have told you that I am not for or against that. What you said is not an adequate reply to my post 278, although I admit that that post is off topic for this thread.
Since I am not arguing for or against mythicism, I am not interested in whether or not Paul knew Jesus' brother. Rather, I am interested in the passage that I mentioned, and you still have not replied to my post 278.
No, but I am much more interested in the questions that I asked you. I am not arguing for or against mythicism, I am arguing against Paul as a credible source regarding the passage that I mentioned.
Consider the following Scriptures:
Where did Paul get that information from?
Why did Paul believe that over 500 people saw Jesus in the same place at the same time in Corinth, which was far away from Palestine? I doubt that mass hallucinations could account for that.
Why did Cephas...
If so, you would still subconsciously consider choice to be an issue, but many people consciously admire other people, an example being cases where people admire rescuers who do not work for money who do not have to rescue anyone. You would not admire a robot who rescued people except to admire...
Nonsense, any child who grows up in a devoutly Christian home, and regularly attends church, and knows the Bible well is accountable, at least in Protestant theology. I assume that the majority of conservative Christians would agree with that, including William Lane Craig, and Ravi Zacharias...
That is absurd since you have claimed that God invented morality. If God is an imposter, and likes to tell lies, then lying is a great making property.
Obviously not since no logic says that everything that is claimed is true until it is proven to be false.
There is not any widely...
Yes you do since any child who grows up in a devoutly Christian home, and regularly attends church, and knows the Bible well is accountable. There is no doubt that some children like that who became Christians would not have become Christians under certain other circumstances, and that some of...
If a being is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, quite obviously his nature would require all of his thoughts, and actions to always be good. That is just plain old common sense, logic, and reason, and it could not possibly be any other way.
You have claimed that God did not have to...
That is fine, but don't bother if you are not willing to discuss all of them at great length, for many months like you have done in some threads. Based upon some of my past experiences with you, I suspect that if we made a few more posts regarding the first topic that I mentioned, you would...
On the contrary, you have not provided any good arguments against my post 3639, at http://www.religiousforums.com/forum/religious-debates/143367-indisputable-rational-proof-god-exists-existed-364.html, which shows that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, and perfect God could not have...
Does that mean that you only want to discuss messianic prophecies with me? If so, I am not interested in that.
I originally told you that I was not willing to discuss any new topics with you unless you were willing to first discuss a number of other topics a lot more than we have discussed...
You have said for some time that you wanted to discuss messianic prophecies. You recently posted a lot of them is this thread, which was off topic for this thread. If you want to discuss messianic prophecies, why don't you start a new thread?
You have been boasting about Bible prophecy for...
Message to 1robin: I suggested to you that you start a new thread that is titled "Messianic prophecies," and use the arguments that you stated in your post 371. You have a good opportunity to discuss messianic prophecies at this forum since there are a number of Jews here, and a number of...
That was an absurd request since there are not any conditions today that are similar to ancient Tyre, and Babylon. The issue is obviously not what anyone could predict today, but what people other than Ezekiel had the capacity to predict if they had wanted to. Hundreds, or thousands of...
But as I have told you many times, it is plausible that Ezekiel knew by ordinary means that Nebuchadnezzar had planned to attack the mainland settlement, which hundreds, or thousands of other people knew.
As I told you in part of Argument 8, "surely very few historians, including those who...