20 Aug '11 17:01>
Originally posted by RJHindsYou are right that you can't say what is or is not true without knowing the facts.
The point is you jump to conclusions without making any attempt to
study what the Holy Bible is saying. The writers of the Holy Bible
were inspired to write what they did according to the Holy Bible. Who
has ever said translators are inspired by God? If coney is the correct
translation, then the Bible writer may not have meant the rabbit or
hare. Yo ...[text shortened]... say it is not true without knowing all the facts.
That is the way we lose a lot of chess games.
The problem is that you apply this to everyone but you, and your religion.
The burden of proof is on you to prove your god exists.
To do this you need solid 'irrefutable' testable evidence.
You don't have any, the way I know this is you bring up the bible as proof.
the bible is written by people a long time ago.
I can't go and ask them questions.
And even if I could, they are humans and are therefore fallible.
There are plenty of people today who claim that god has spoken to them
and given them his divine wisdom (which contradicts all the other people
claiming the same thing) at most only one of them can be right, and most
likely all are wrong.
I have no way of telling, (apart from the fact that a lot of what they claim is
manifestly ridiculously evidently not true) if they have had a real experience
or have imagined it, and that's even assuming I trust that they are not simply
lying.
There is no way of evaluating if one 'holy book' is more or less divinely inspired
than any of the others.
You would not claim that the Koran, or the Torah, or the works of Ron Hubbard
were divinely inspired, you might even claim that other denominations of Christianity
have got it wrong.
How can you possibly judge that those books are not valid proof, but yours is?
Answer is you can't.
The bible is proof of nothing.
Have you read every other religious text before jumping to your conclusions about
their legitimacy?
Your rebuttal to me says 'if coney is the correct translation' ...
you yourself are placing doubt on the translation of the bible you yourself were
pointing to, to prove its 'truth'.
You are admitting it can't be relied upon to even mean what it says.
You are admitting it might be wrong.
I don't have to prove that it is wrong, you have to prove it's right.
I am not using the bible to make my claim, I am saying you can't rely on it to make
yours.
Apparently you agree.
You can not claim knowledge without facts and verifiable evidence.
You are the one claiming the facts, you are the one claiming the knowledge.
Show us the indisputable verifiable evidence.