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Old 04-05-2008, 11:08 AM   #141
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Prophecy proves the Bible...that God reigns in the heavens.
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Where is heavens?
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And you won't find one in the bible either - which is why fundies try to shoe-horn different kings into the historical record, switch empires and conquerors, and refuse to commit themselves to a particular interpretation.
Exactly what critics do to try and disprove them. But Israel most certainly will not allow that.
What's the point of trying to 'disprove' your assertions when you won't even tell us what definition of 'Roman' you're working with? Your 'argument' so far seems to be:

1. Daniel's vague dream is referring to several different empires which are to rise in the future.
2. Because I say so! That's why!
3. The last one refers to the Roman empire.
4. No, I won't tell you what I mean by 'Roman', everyone should already know that.
5. Therefore God exists.

I'm wondering if I could submit a variation of this to Godless Geeks' "300+ Proofs of God's Existence", but it might be too similar to Proof 374:

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ARGUMENT FROM INCOHERENCY
(1) You have to have faith!
(2) [Atheist: How do you define faith?]
(3) You know . . . Faith!
(4) [Atheist: No, I don't know. Please enlighten me.]
(5) You do so have faith! You're just trying to confuse me!
(6) Therefore, God exists.
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Old 04-05-2008, 03:17 PM   #143
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Prophecy proves the Bible...that God reigns in the heavens.
Practicing to be a preacher, I see. You're off to a good start. Keep up the misrepresentations, the fallacies, and particularly the holier-than-thou attitude. You'll go far. Just don't start asking for money quite yet. You need a few more years of practice first.
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Exactly what critics do to try and disprove them. But Israel most certainly will not allow that.
What's the point of trying to 'disprove' your assertions when you won't even tell us what definition of 'Roman' you're working with? Your 'argument' so far seems to be:

1. Daniel's vague dream is referring to several different empires which are to rise in the future.
2. Because I say so! That's why!
3. The last one refers to the Roman empire.
4. No, I won't tell you what I mean by 'Roman', everyone should already know that.
5. Therefore God exists.

I'm wondering if I could submit a variation of this to Godless Geeks' "300+ Proofs of God's Existence", but it might be too similar to Proof 374:

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ARGUMENT FROM INCOHERENCY
(1) You have to have faith!
(2) [Atheist: How do you define faith?]
(3) You know . . . Faith!
(4) [Atheist: No, I don't know. Please enlighten me.]
(5) You do so have faith! You're just trying to confuse me!
(6) Therefore, God exists.

My point is that the Romans and Europeans are inseperable....Sheshong seems to be saying they are. So are the Europeans seperate from the Romans? What say you?
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Old 04-05-2008, 09:22 PM   #145
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My point is that the Romans and Europeans are inseperable....Sheshong seems to be saying they are. So are the Europeans seperate from the Romans? What say you?
The answer to that is that they are not inseparable. The Roman Empire at one time controlled a lot of Europe. However, the Gauls were still Gauls, the Britons were still Britons, the Egyptians were still Egyptian (they did control more then parts of Europe). They didn't *poof* all magically become Roman.

Wait! Does that mean that Northern Africa is European as well? I mean it was a part of the Empire? The Mid-East as well.

What is your definition of ROME?
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