I don't believe in those things. I don't pretend to know how life or the universe started. You must be thinking of someone else.
I'm agnostic on all 3 things. What's your point?
we were talking about belief in a claim about objective reality (jesus is god etc.), not subjective moral issues.
ok cool. I have seen a few secular scholars argue that it could be a mixture, but not a typical sentiment apparently.
I was just responding to the statement that I am choosing not to believe. I don't have a choice. love as you are using is too vague to be...
Maybe, but I don't think that's necessarily considered an established fact even among secular scholars, and I'm wary of giving apologists ammunition...
you were talking about interpreting the bible in your prior posts, not belief. genuine belief is compelled by evidence. it is not a decision.
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I wouldn't be changing my mind about the nature of god if he exists and was actually the god described in the bible. He would still be a cruel...
dodge!!!!! :devilwink: nice platitude. interpreting the bible is obviously not simple. interpretations of what exactly the path to jesus entails...
so are non-repentant gay christians going to heaven or not? should you be telling them they are sinners? if the bible is so simple why are that issue...
the apologist's argument is that Jesus was NOT a major character at the time, not someone roman historians would be likely to even be aware of, which...
A lot of us would just be descending into hell laughing. The christian god and plan of salvation are so ludicrous if it were true it would actually...
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if you insist on creating a dichotomy between philosophy and science, measuring or noticing the growth of your fingernail is obviously science....
no idea what you mean by that. I was just saying most atheists would actually be fairly easy to convert to believers if a god existed and had any...
you presume too much
there is an objective probability of injury for a particular individual at a particular height (along with other factors). the only subjectivity...
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