14 Apr 14
Originally posted by wolfgang59I know God is good because He said so.
Theists: You believe in a god. How do you know he is good?
Atheists: If a god existed; what would be your criteria to ascertain the "goodness" of that deity?
To both: Even supposing a "good god" exists - why would you want to worship it?
I worship God because He said so.
Satisfied?
15 Apr 14
Originally posted by FMFBUMP for Grampy Bobby.
wolfgang59's Long-winded way of saying "You found me out - I have been talking crap" was HIS parody paraphrase of YOUR waffly, evasive reply to his question. You are misquoting him. See page 6 Thread 158740.
I suppose if you don't retract your misquote of wolfgang59, it will at least make it clear that it was deliberate on your part. 🙂
15 Apr 14
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Originally posted by FMFOriginally posted by Grampy Bobby
BUMP for Grampy Bobby.
I suppose if you don't retract your misquote of wolfgang59, it will at least make it clear that it was deliberate on your part. 🙂
I'm not here to shoot semantic craps with you or anyone else who hasn't yet become serious about eternal spiritual issues. If and when you do become serious, I'll gladly resume this conversation. Meanwhile, you'll have to find somebody else with whom to roll the frivolous online forum gamesmanship dice. -Bob]
Originally posted by wolfgang59
Long-winded way of saying
"You found me out - I have been talking crap"
If you cannot debate - leave the forum ..... P L E A S E
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Spirituality
"Debate and general discussion of the supernatural, religion, and the life after." -Russ
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby Tricky questions (Page 1)
"You found me out - I have been talking crap" -wolfgang59 "2.15 million livestock could have safely..." New thread noted.
Note: Verbatim quote.
15 Apr 14
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIf you don't retract your misquote, people will know it was deliberate. And if people know that it was a deliberate misquote, what will you have achieved?
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
I'm not here to shoot semantic craps with you or anyone else who hasn't yet become serious about eternal spiritual issues. If and when you do become serious, I'll gladly resume this conversation. Meanwhile, you'll have to find somebody else with whom to roll the frivolous online forum gamesmanship dice. -Bob] ...[text shortened]... en talking crap" -wolfgang59 "2.15 million livestock could have safely..." New thread noted.[/b]
15 Apr 14
Originally posted by FabianFnasFF: the two groups are
I ask again why it is good to divide the world population in two (and two only) groups.
In what group do you find muslims?
In what group do you find buddhists?
In what group do you find agnostics?
In what group do I belong?
1. Those that believe in a deity or deities.
2. The others.
15 Apr 14
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Originally posted by wolfgang59My concept of God simply does not stretch to Him being a being/entity who has such a blatantly folk tale style attribute as demanding to be worshipped. The notion seems preposterous and prosaic. Of course, I don't think God has revealed Himself to anyone; and certainly not to me [I gave Christianity a long run for its money, but its content ~ I came to realize ~ was about people, their imaginations, their culture and their identity, and it wasn't about God]. So I have no 'revelation' to proselytize ~ and nor do the religionist theists here.
Theists: You believe in a god. How do you know he is good?
Atheists: If a god existed; what would be your criteria to ascertain the "goodness" of that deity?
To both: Even supposing a "good god" exists - why would you want to worship it?
15 Apr 14
Originally posted by wolfgang59So, if I now understand it correctly...
FF: the two groups are
1. Those that believe in a deity or deities.
2. The others.
I was wrong when I thought that by "theists" the OP meant "those who thinks like me" and by "atheists" he meant "the the other ones, even if they think they believe in christ and stuff".
You are a theist if you believe in Kala or Krishna or both, right?
The ones believing that the sun is god, they are also theists, right?