"whoyakidding" wrote in message
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>>Imaginary beings don't give driving directions.
>
>You said they did. "So I'm driving down the road planning to ask pull
>over somewhere to ask directions. I decide since I'm speaking to God,
>why not just ask him for directions, so I ask him. Then I got a
>vision of a road and a direction"
>
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.guns/msg/226b04ad4d1bbf20
Duh, God's not an imaginary being. But there are false "gods" that are
imaginary beings. All through the Bible, the real God is the one that
performs. God's test for a real prophet? The one who's prophecies come
true. The test for the true God was the one that answers, by fire in the
instance I'm thinking of. The real God is very against false religion and
imaginary gods, he forbids it.
>> Jesus' disciples wouldn't
>>have been willing to die for the claim that they had seen him resurrected
>>if
>>they knew it was a lie.
>
>Playing along here... Do you think they were any different from any of
>these other disciples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_suicide who
>died for lies?
Yes, a very big difference. For example if someone dies because they'll get
a dozen virgins in heaven, they are dying for what the believe by blind
faith. If a person sees someone that has been raised from the dead and will
not deny it unto their death, it means they believe what they saw with their
own eyes. See the difference? One believe in blind faith from
(possibly)lies they have heard, the other believes in actual evidence they
have seen with their own eyes. So it's like believing in the tooth fairy
verses believing in the Statue of Liberty. To someone that has never heard
of the tooth fairy or the Statue of Liberty, they are both the same.
>> Paul wrote that there were 500 eye witnesses
>
>That and a couple bucks will buy you a cup of coffee.
Paul would have been invalidating his own claim if it were not so. Paul
didn't make a huge point of it, just a mention so the original readers could
check it out for themselves.
>>Can't deal the the facts because of your narrow mind.
>>
>>RogerN
>
>That post, like most of your others, proves in your own words that
>you're incapable of knowing the difference between fact, fairytale,
>and belief. You "know" all these things you believe in the same way a
>child knows that Santa Claus came down the chimney, or a fly knows
>it's nighttime as the shadow of the swatter descends.
It's like vinegar and baking soda, mix them together and you get a real
reaction, if you don't get the real reaction then your vinegar and/or baking
soda is not right.
Look up "biblical artifacts", do fairytales have real artifacts?
1000+ years of failure of people like whoyakidding.
For 1000 years, "people like whoyakidding" pointed to the Old Testament
references to Assyria and its capital, Ninevah. They claimed such places
never existed. Assyria was written off as a "mythical empire." The reason
for this conclusion was that no secular references to Assyria and Ninevah
had ever been found. Then, in 1840 a British explorer by the name of Henry
Layard had the temerity to discover evidence of the existence of Assyria,
and soon after, another Englishman proceeded to dig up the city of Nineveh.
By 1800 "people like whoyakidding" were pointing to the New Testament
references to the towns of Capernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida as proof
positive that the Bible is full of myth, legend and superstition. "No such
towns ever existed," they claimed. Today, thanks to archeology, you can
visit these places.
The "people like whoyakidding" then turned their attention to the Hittites,
a nation the Bible mentions 40 times. They were classified an "imaginary"
people who existed only in the pages of the Old Testament. But then, in 1905
archeologists uncovered the city of Boghas-Keui in central Turkey which
proved to be the former capital city of this "bogus" empire.
So with 1000+ year track record of proven failure by "people like
whoyakidding", and 2000+ years "faith" being proven correct, why do "people
like whoyakidding" think others should adopt their flawed thinking?
RogerN