On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:28:53 GMT, jesucristo2@
netscape.net (marques de sade) wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:18:10 +0900, dh@. wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:32:15 GMT, jesucristo2@
netscape.net (marques de sade) wrote:
>> If God does exist, I believe he can and most likely does
>>control what goes into books that are considered canonical
>>...at least as much as he cares to. If you don't, then YOU
>>explain why you don't think so.
>
>because it's like saying to someone that he/she must believe in
>Goku by handing them a Dragonball Z DVD as proof...
It's not like that in any way.
>>>so why do you act like you engage atheists in debate from a
>>>scientific perspective when all is settled religiously for you...
>>
>> I consider it to be a scientific perspective to try to think
>>realistically about how God could exist, etc.
>
>you go through some motions that mimic rational approach but in
>the end what may be deduced through logic will get discarded in
>favor of Divine Revelation,
That would depend on whether they conflict or not.
>which cannot be questioned...
>
>> You do too,
>>but you just haven't figured that part out yet and very
>>likely never will.
>
>so called 'god' in divine scripture is not really male or
>female... but the society of the time it was written in basically
>didn't even consider women to be human, so the idea of a female
>god was the farthest from anyone's mind of that day in age...
If God exists, considering that he'd be billions of years
old I don't believe he would be restricted to any particular
form or gender, but refer to him as "he" out of convenience
and also the way I've always been led to believe he would
rather be referred to.
>but for that day, you gotta admit they were pretty advanced...
In some ways, but they were still a long way from the
printing press. The fact that the Bible managed to survive
even though people tried to eradicate it is evidence (not
proof) to me of God's possible existence. Without the
ability to mass produce it, it seems likely to me that it might
have been eliminated if God had not helped it maintain.
