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MugundaMan
#241 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:02:01 AM
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Apricot wrote:

I appreciate your ontological approach to support your theistic beliefs. It is a clever approach but by half.
Wind or any other name you’d want to call it, is a force of nature and its speed, direction, temperature, dew point can all be characterized. Anyone with the right instruments and knowledge can replicate this.


But the philosopher (and perhaps the theist) will argue that all your empirical assumptions and presuppositions used to arrive at a characterization of wind are hopelessly flawed from the jump. For example, how will you measure the winds speed unless you (or society) has arbitrarily determined what the measurement unit of speed is? Which would logically lead to yet another arbitrary determination of more basic units of measurement such as a metre for example. But a metre looks like a kilometre from the perspective of an ant, and like a millimeter when viewed from the vantage point of a drone flying high above the ground, so there is a dogmatic arrogance in the scientific religion in decreeing (without proofLaughing out loudly ) the vantage point from which a metre becomes a metre!


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I don’t need to see wind to know it is there. So is magnetism, electricity, light, gravity, space, time and many other forms of nature that have amazed man. Don’t get me wrong, atheist do appreciate the numinous and the transcendent. What they don’t need is to go the extra yard to put a finger of God on it. That type of arrogance is left to the theist.


The interesting thing about most non-theists is that they do not see the log in their eyes as they point out the speck in the theists' eye (pun fully intended smile ) Like in this case, you accept that they do not need to see wind to know it is there, yet you are flabbergasted when the Christian tells you they do not need to see Jesus in the flesh to believe He is Lord and Saviour. How did you make the leap from not seeing wind with your eyes but knowing it exists? Of course by your own religious dogmas on scientific measurement right? Same thing for the Christian; for him, the heavens declare the handiwork of God, day by day, as you have already agreed - they evince the transcendent which amazes. It is plain as day to him that God created the cosmos, because God has progressively revealed himself to us from the beginning of time, and according to the Christian world view that I ascribe to, the evidence of his existence is so glaring that no human being has an excuse to deny Him. Look at a rainbow for example. The non-theist admires its beauty but denies that it was created by a divine being, yet cannot tell us who created it! And often mistakes describing it and its elements to explaining who made it. A better argument on your part would be to determine which God created all that we see, rather than sticking to dogmatic scientific measures of dubious origin as the only yardstick the non-theist approves of.


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I don’t get your attack on science and your claim that it is a religion! When I make a scientific claim, I make a hypothesis or a guess that can be tested. If evidence adduced supports my claim and anyone anywhere using the same set of conditions can replicate my claim, then my claim is accepted as a valid theory. Where is the religion in that? Science allows others to disprove its claim using evidence to the contrary. Does religion do that? You know very well it does not because it makes claims that are not falsifiable. They cannot be disproved!


Science IS a religion, complete with popes and preachers! In the immeasurable arrogance of the scientist, he arbitrarily creates a set of rules of inquiry, measurement and theory formulation (based, as I said earlier, on hopelessly flawed assumptions) that he then declares as fatwa to be obeyed by all! That is the WORST sort of religion. Who says the mighty God of the universe is explainable by feeble and flawed tools of science? When we theists give you OUR sets of rules to arrive at a knowledge of God, you arrogantly reject them!



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Claims such as Matthew 27:51 where souls of the dead were resurrected when Jesus died. Or that the sun can be stopped at midday so that Joshua can win war.
If you accept that I do not need to read any revealed text to know that killing my mother is wrong, how then do you make a jump (except by leap of faith) that God planted that conscience in my heart. For heavens sake (pun intended) how do you do that? Can these not mutually exclusive, or is it that one cannot operate without the other assertion?


First of all I am very glad that you actually read the Holy book smile , so clearly it is of some value even to the non-theist. The claims in the Bible above are precisely the "proof" of the divinity of the Christian God. So were the miracles, which contrary to your assertions, WERE documented in the extra-biblical record, but of course not in the empirical detail the non-theist craves! How do we make that leap? Well we trust in God's revealed Word (both the flesh that appeared and the book) which you have of course rejected because it does not conform to the dictates of your religion of Science.

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The historicity of Jesus is in dispute. His celestial existence is not. Paul’s Jesus is not in doubt and neither is he falsifiable. He is revealed to him. Josephus mention of Jesus has nothing to do with his claimed divinity and it is minute. It is also believed to be a later accretion, like many others whose main goal is to show a historicity of Jesus.

ha ha ha ha ha ha! Excuse me for laughing here. You are in the extreme minority of scholars who actually disputes the historicity of Jesus! Even majority of your non-theist friends would not cast their lot with you on this. As I said earlier, a better argument would be to evaluate whether he was God or man. That he walked the earth is virtually irrefutable.

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The gospels contradict each other whether and when not doing so, they are growing the legend. No proof of the disciples or of Moses or of other characters in the bible can be adduced like that of Alexander the Greek or Pontius Pilate can be.


This is a complete fallacy. WHERE and HOW do the Gospels contradict each other. Please give us a few CONCRETE EXAMPLES of this so that we can take you seriously on this point. On Moses Vs Alexander; again, the non-theist always reverts to his arrogant cocoon of demanding proof on his own terms using his own bizarre sets of rules. Think of a bustling market in a moment in time. You and I may arrive at that market as historians to document what is going on in the market at the time. Your report may be an elaborate exposition on what fruits, vegetables and perhaps sundry species of rats that you find scampering around the market. Mine may involve a 30 page narrative on the 90 year old vendor I found at the first stall in the marker; his life history and recollections of how the market has changed over the years and so on. What makes your narrative superior to mine about the exact same market at the exact same point in history. No non-theist for example has come out to dispute the existence, accurately depicted in terms of their historical dates of relevance, of figures like the Pontius Pilate you mention, as recorded in the Biblical historical record! In fact a lot of historians in the recent past, have found the Bible to be invaluable in piecing together missing links on empires past (including the Persian empire you mention below) that the secular historical record had no clue about for thousands of years!


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There is plenty of similarity between Judeo-Christian belief and Zoroastrianism, Osiris, Anana, Romulus, etc and while the gods of these cultures are myths, that of Judeo-Christian has to be plugged into historicity. You fail to mention the role of the Greek (Hellenistic), Romans and Persian in the growth of what is today’s civilization. It is a large topic to cover.


The presence of a knockoff does not invalidate the authenticity of the authentic. Judaism for example, is antithetical to Christianity after the era of Christ, yet they claim to worship the same God. Islam too borrows heavily from the pre-Christian era. Some cultures believe an elephant is their god - that is their right. The Christian God says I am the one true God and there is none above me. I have showed you my Son - clothed in signs, deeds, wisdom and wonders the world has never seen to this day - whom you killed, yet in that death He will save you if only you believe in Him.

Belief is a choice. You can reject Him on your own terms or accept that you are sinful and need Him as Lord for Him to reconcile you with God eternally. Whose fault is it then if you wilfully reject Him and find out the hard way that everything you read in that Bible you choose to reject is true? Beyond the coffin, measuring the intensity, speed, characterization and dew point of flames in Hades in stubborn persistence at disproving God for eternity might not be a very fun recourse smile Shalom
AlphDoti
#242 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 8:51:35 AM
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@MugundaMan you seem to be a smart man. However, there is something which I told your fellow Christian bros and sisters here before you came in, and that is do not call Jesus Christ a.s. God. He never said he is God. This is one of the reasons atheist find you guys really believing blindly.

How can you call a baby who was conceived by a woman God? He was born, cut umbilical cord, suckled his mothers breasts, ate, peed, pooped, slept, circumcised etc etc... How can you call him God when he himself tells you in your book "Our Father in heaven..." "I am going to my God, your God"...

Please bro use your brain a little bit (sorry I don't mean to offend)...
MugundaMan
#243 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:09:04 AM
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AlphDoti wrote:
@MugundaMan you seem to be a smart man. However, there is something which I told your fellow Christian bros and sisters here before you came in, and that is do not call Jesus Christ a.s. God. He never said he is God. This is one of the reasons atheist find you guys really believing blindly.

How can you call a baby who was conceived by a woman God? He was born, cut umbilical cord, suckled his mothers breasts, ate, peed, pooped, slept, circumcised etc etc... How can you call him God when he himself tells you in your book "Our Father in heaven..." "I am going to my God, your God"...

Please bro use your brain a little bit (sorry I don't mean to offend)...


Are you sure? smile
He has said it over and over and over again in His Word. Should I dish out the proof?
AlphDoti
#244 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:46:13 AM
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MugundaMan wrote:
AlphDoti wrote:
@MugundaMan you seem to be a smart man. However, there is something which I told your fellow Christian bros and sisters here before you came in, and that is do not call Jesus Christ a.s. God. He never said he is God. This is one of the reasons atheist find you guys really believing blindly.

How can you call a baby who was conceived by a woman God? He was born, cut umbilical cord, suckled his mothers breasts, ate, peed, pooped, slept, circumcised etc etc... How can you call him God when he himself tells you in your book "Our Father in heaven..." "I am going to my God, your God"...

Please bro use your brain a little bit (sorry I don't mean to offend)...

Are you sure? smile
He has said it over and over and over again in His Word. Should I dish out the proof?

I think you are new here, you joined just this year 2018 and you coming with guns blazing. We have discussed these things at length way back in 2013. I don't think it is necessary to repeat unless you have additional information. First check out what was discussed before and if you find it unsatisfactory, respond on that thread. Let us leave this one to Atheist.

1. Start here

2. Also here

3. What Muslims believe about Jesus Christ peace be upon him click here
Lolest!
#245 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:03:37 AM
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AlphDoti wrote:
@MugundaMan you seem to be a smart man. However, there is something which I told your fellow Christian bros and sisters here before you came in, and that is do not call Jesus Christ a.s. God. He never said he is God. This is one of the reasons atheist find you guys really believing blindly.

How can you call a baby who was conceived by a woman God? He was born, cut umbilical cord, suckled his mothers breasts, ate, peed, pooped, slept, circumcised etc etc... How can you call him God when he himself tells you in your book "Our Father in heaven..." "I am going to my God, your God"...

Please bro use your brain a little bit (sorry I don't mean to offend)...

Use your brain too and stop following that Arab conman Muhammad!!
John 10
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Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[c]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

John 20

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28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!”
29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
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AlphDoti
#246 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 10:48:02 AM
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Lolest! wrote:
AlphDoti wrote:
@MugundaMan you seem to be a smart man. However, there is something which I told your fellow Christian bros and sisters here before you came in, and that is do not call Jesus Christ a.s. God. He never said he is God. This is one of the reasons atheist find you guys really believing blindly.

How can you call a baby who was conceived by a woman God? He was born, cut umbilical cord, suckled his mothers breasts, ate, peed, pooped, slept, circumcised etc etc... How can you call him God when he himself tells you in your book "Our Father in heaven..." "I am going to my God, your God"...

Please bro use your brain a little bit (sorry I don't mean to offend)...

Use your brain too and stop following that Arab conman Muhammad!!

John 10
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...31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”

33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”


John 20
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28 Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

You know we've been there before, where you have tried all these tricks before, but I will not tire to show you.

First you must understand the old Jewish culture where people were given "Godly" names and this confuses Christians who try to define the deity of Jesus a.s. Take for example Psalm 82:6 "I said, 'You are "gods" (Elohim, plural to El); you are all sons of the Most High.'" Brother @lonest, "gods" here in Hebrew is "Elohim" which is plural of "EL". It is the same exact thing as "EL" used in Isaiah 9:6. Note "gods" is several "EL"s. So for someone to be called "god" or "God" in your Bible would not make him GOD Almighty Himself, the Creator or YAHWEH, or Jehovah. Also for your information, anybody who is a "Son of GOD" according to your Bible is actually "god" or "God".

As for doubting Thomas who said "My Lord and my God" to Jesus a.s. Reflect back when God told Moses a.s. "I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: Aaron and of the Believers" (Exodus 7:1). So "GOD" in the Bible also means master, leader, priest. Therefore, the doubting Thomas' statement didn't suggest that Jesus was his Creator. And Jesus being called "God" doesn't mean that he is GOD Almighty. He is just another mere "God" like the rest of the believing creations as David a.s.
said "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High" (Psalm 82:6)

I hope that clarifies the confusion.
2012
#247 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:08:25 PM
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Without God, life has no meaning.

That's my simple position.

You cannot explain even one thing in this world otherwise.

BBI will solve it
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MugundaMan
#248 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:21:44 PM
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Alphdoti, the reason you have been deceived is because you do not understand the nature and form of the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). As well as the nature and form of Jesus (both fully God and fully man) and how the two concepts interrelate. When Christ left majesty on high and humbled himself by putting on flesh to be in obedience to God the Father here on earth, He was by all means fully human, subjecting Himself to God the Father while He was in the flesh. All attributions of Him being Son in obedience regard this human phase. In fact Scripture talks of Him being equal to God but not using it to His own advantage while on earth. If you miss this critical point you completely miss the boat and not even the son of Ishmael and his specious arguments will save you from Abbadon with denials of Christ as God.



hamburglar
#249 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:22:24 PM
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2012 wrote:
Without God, life has no meaning.

That's my simple position.

You cannot explain even one thing in this world otherwise.


My life has plenty of meaning and I don’t have a god in it. Life is what you make it, you can decide to live a meaningless life with or without god and vice versa.
AlphDoti
#250 Posted : Thursday, September 27, 2018 12:36:47 PM
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MugundaMan wrote:
Alphdoti, the reason you have been deceived is because you do not understand the nature and form of the Triune God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). As well as the nature and form of Jesus (both fully God and fully man) and how the two concepts interrelate... In fact Scripture talks of Him being equal to God but not using it to His own advantage while on earth.

Ati fully God and fully man? Does that statement make sense to you? I told you no wonder you make the atheist just laugh at you! In fact your Bible says in Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man... neither the son of man"

Ati which scripture talks about Jesus a.s. being equal to God? Can you share even a single unambiguous statement in that scripture where Jesus Christ (pbuh) himself said that "I'm God" or "worship me". I will give you first verse from your Bible which completely destroys your thinking: (1). Jesus says in John 14:28: "My father is greater than I."
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