Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeIt is gold the one hand, but totally sad in another
Your belief that an atheist is only an atheist if they can prove God doesn't exist is comedy gold.
This comedy is compounded by you then having to accept that a theist is only a theist if they can prove God 'does' exist.
By Jove, we are all agnostic!
Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeOh Ghost! I was just raggin' on ya is all. 😉
When I don't know something i say, 'I don't know.' - What is it about not having the answer that worries you so much Joe?
We go back to the child who doesn't know the answer to a sum and freely acknowledges he doesn't have the answer. This bodes well for him being open to the correct answer when it is explained to him. Unfortunately both Chaney an ...[text shortened]... e lack of rational evidence.
Which, again, is why no answer is better than the wrong answer.
"What is it about not having the answer that worries you so much Joe?"
Glad you asked. I'm assuming you mean about you not having the answer. I don't have or know all the answers either, and I'm not so worried about it, really.
What concerns me though is when the answer lies right there before us, but we sometimes don't see it.
Just a random thought.
Originally posted by Ghost of a DukeAre you saying you 'know' something due to a 'lack of belief'?
You have stated that God exists. Is that not equally bold, especially considering your complete lack of evidence? (Although by all means 'provide 'your' proof that God exists).
And to call me an agnostic when I have stated clearly God does not exist just makes you look like a numpty. - If someone saying God does not exist does not qualify them as an atheist, then what does?!
Originally posted by josephwAnd yet you've never tackled sonship on this - what you call - "unscriptural" and "unbiblical" narrative, not even once as far as I recall, and yet he cites eternal torture for non-believers as the "ultimate justice" and "perfect morality" that the god he worships administers. If "God" is, as sonship would have it, a torturer god, can it, by its very nature, be seen as the same deity as the god figure you worship?
Of course God doesn't "torture" people for not believing in Him. You're stuck in an unbiblical narrative. The idea that God tortures people is unscriptural.
Originally posted by FMFQuote sonship. I don't trust you because you always rephrase, misrepresent a posters intent and take their words out of context.
And yet you've never tackled sonship on this - what you call - "unscriptural" and "unbiblical" narrative, not even once as far as I recall, and yet he cites eternal torture for non-believers as the "ultimate justice" and "perfect morality" that the god he worships administers. If "God" is, as sonship would have it, a torturer god, can it, by its very nature, be seen as the same deity as the god figure you worship?