Excellent article at the link. Russell went a wee bit too heavy with his, "the atheist, that we can know there is not." Most atheists I'm aware of, would not make said assertion....
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My position is that I claim to know for a fact that the god of Classical theism does not exist.
A lot of the omni attributes contradict the existence of the God of...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
Speaking of Bertrand Russell and Agnosticism see this disambiguation:
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
The problem I have about agnostics is, they're liars. Even if they don't mean to be. It's a cop-out. Agnostic (from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) 'without' and γνῶσις (gnōsis)...
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In an update, I have liked to another video of Licona’s attempting to rethink inerrancy in a post-hoc fashion. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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I have added another video of Licona’s attempting to rethink inerrancy in a post-hoc fashion. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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That raises an interesting question: Given that the local pastor has a comfortable life and income doing the church-thing, what fool thinks the pastor, should he become an atheist,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 2 hours ago
Only Believe! And we can cite Alvin Plantinga that belief in the Calvinist God is a belief that is "properly basic." /s
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
Indeed, and one more: Did nobody ever tell inerrantists that the techniques used in the NT are characteristic of crafted literature rather than raw historical chronicle?
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
I would argue that in light of passages like Hosea 13:16, Isaiah 10 and 13:15-17, Turek's notion that god doesn't want powerful corrupt pagan leaders to engage in mass slaughter of the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 8 hours ago
‘I just have a personal policy. If somebody predicts and accomplishes His own resurrection from the dead, I just trust whatever the guy says.’
What Turek overlooks is that...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 8 hours ago
The reply from apologists like Frank Turek is that the reason God does not do more to correct people's errant views of Christianity is because of the ripple-effect: god knows that by allowing...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 8 hours ago
If you want to kick an inerrantist's ass real good, demand from them an error or contradiction in the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then ask them how likely the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 8 hours ago
That conservative Christians and fundamentalists are Pharisees is clear from a) Jesus never expressed or implied his followers' salvation or sanctification depended on them affirming that...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 10 hours ago
‘I have no positive belief in God, but technically, I cannot know for sure.’
Technically, I cannot know for sure that the Sun will rise tomorrow. But that's how...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 15 hours ago
Turek of course is famous for saying that one can resist the Nazis by hiding Jews under his floorboards, and that he can even lie to the Nazis so as to resist them. It is a whole shtick in his...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 17 hours ago
Obviously, I think that the Scripture teaches that thou shalt not murder and that an unborn child is a human being. In fact, maybe the clearest place it says that, that your unborn...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 18 hours ago
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. - Carl Sagan THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD.
And each year we can tell that science gets...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
Probably for the same reason he sat out the Holocaust, and never intervened to prevent a member of the clergy from raping a child. He doesn't exist.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 20 hours ago
I remember Jim the Scott, he was a tit.
He would cite Kenneth Kitchen, an evangelical Egyptologist, as an authority.
He would, wouldn't he? Kenneth Kitchen was a...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 22 hours ago
And this wasn't supposed to have been a problem in the first place, given that Jesus promised he'd return to rule in power before all of his original followers were dead....
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 22 hours ago
Turek's position on women's reproductive rights is in the gutter, and he thinks he has the Buybull on his side. Obviously, I think that the Scripture teaches that thou shalt...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 23 hours ago
That reminds me of a Dara Ó Briain skit. "Science doesn't know everything, otherwise it would stop".
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
My home made theology holds that the kingdom of heaven awaits the people who rejected magic books and thought for themselves.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
What the RCC should know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sVzWOYaM9w
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