28 May 18
Originally posted by @sonshipI have never questioned your sincerity.
Let's say someone claims to have been its Originator AND displays characteristics of Wisdom, Knowledge, Power, and Authority which support the claim. Is it reasonable for me to believe that what I do not know has been given to me by revelation ?
Originally posted by @fmf
I don't know how long the universe has been here. I don't know the age or the origin of the universe.
Will I be tortured by your god figure, do you think, for saying this?
Will I be tortured by your god figure, do you think, for saying this?
Is it impossible that a torturer Creator created the universe or do you figure it OUGHT not be so ?
Ie. God a Creator should be kind, loving, merciful, forgiving, not vengeful, never punishing and certainly not forever?
Which?
If you were to contemplate WHO in history manifests such arttributes more than anyone else such as being kind, loving, merciful, forgiving, is there anyone who seems to stand out among history's humans to display such characteristics?
28 May 18
Originally posted by @sonshipThat's right. I don't know. And the answer is "I don't know" when asked the same stuff by a Muslim. So, you go for no.3 (back when I plumped for no.1). And then you get from there to God only forgiving the "sins" of mankind if He lets his "Son" be executed by the Romans first. In the end, you are a Christian reciting Christian ideology. Neither of us are physicists.
Let me guess.
"I don't know." ?
Originally posted by @fmfCan propagation be of something that is true?
I think what you propagate here is folklore, mythology and superstition. That's my perspective. It's not a perspective I require you to adopt.
Is all propagation by nature, of what is not true?
Propagation of what is TRUE is possible ?
Yes?
Never!
28 May 18
Originally posted by @sonshipWill I be tortured by your god figure, do you think, for not believing the things you believe?
Is it impossible that a torturer Creator created the universe or do you figure it OUGHT not be so ?
Ie. God a Creator should be kind, loving, merciful, forgiving, not vengeful, never punishing and certainly not forever?
Which?
If you were to contemplate WHO in history manifests such arttributes more than anyone else such as being [b] kind ...[text shortened]... ] is there anyone who seems to stand out among history's humans to display such characteristics?
Originally posted by @fmfWhere is your un-convoluted explanation of a universe that has always existed yet has not by now run down ?
Will I be tortured by your god figure, do you think, for not believing the things you believe?
Do you need more time ?
28 May 18
Originally posted by @sonshipWhat appeals to your imagination and aspirations - replete with the ghastly moral atrocity at its very core - doesn't appeal to my imagination or to my spiritual side. It doesn't make sense on any level.
Is it impossible that a torturer Creator created the universe or do you figure it OUGHT not be so ?
Ie. God a Creator should be kind, loving, merciful, forgiving, not vengeful, never punishing and certainly not forever?
Which?
If you were to contemplate WHO in history manifests such arttributes more than anyone else such as being [b] kind ...[text shortened]... ] is there anyone who seems to stand out among history's humans to display such characteristics?
Originally posted by @fmf
That's right. I don't know. And the answer is "I don't know" when asked the same stuff by a Muslim. So, you go for no.3 (back when I plumped for no.1). And then you get from there to God only forgiving the "sins" of mankind if He lets his "Son" be executed by the Romans first. In the end, you are a Christian reciting Christian ideology. Neither of us are physicists.
you are a Christian reciting Christian ideology.
Is it possible to recite Christian ideology and make TRUTH statements?
Is any and all recitation of Christian ideology of untrue matters BY DEFINITION ?
Where is your un-convoluted explanation of an eternal universe that has not become burnt out and cold by now?
28 May 18
Originally posted by @sonshipMy. You're running through your full array of go-to rhetorical gimmicks. Look sonship, we have discussed this many times before. The last time was, I think, in March. My response to this little conversational set-piece has not changed.
If you were to contemplate WHO in history manifests such arttributes more than anyone else such as being [b] kind, loving, merciful, forgiving, is there anyone who seems to stand out among history's humans to display such characteristics?[/b]
Originally posted by @fmfThat was not the question.
I have no reason to believe the stuff you propagate is "true".
Can in any instance the propagation of ideas be of true ideas?
If so how do you know for certain what I "propagate" is impossible to be true?
I "propagate" - Genesis 1:1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Beginning - of time.
Heavens - space.
And earth - matter.
You have a better explanation about an eternally existing heavens and earth and NO beginning of time?
Explain it without modern folklore, modern mythology, and modern convolution.