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Not Prince Hamlet · 04-20-2002, 05:59 PM

Ha! That's a great twist.

Forget "can God make a boulder so heavy He can't lift it?"

How about:

"Can God make a paradise that has no opposite?" If so, he's not benevolent. If not, he's not omnipotent.

Jeff

Booty · 04-20-2002, 06:00 PM

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Ha! Prove there was an Adam and an Eve. Prove that there was a forbidden fruit, and that they ate it. Prove that they did this of their own free will.

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Or you could prove that there was not an Adam and Eve and we could go in delightful circles for days on end.

Oh and the opposite of Green is Orange, but we probably do not have the common cultural base for that either.

ju'iblex · 04-20-2002, 06:03 PM

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Or you could prove that there was not an Adam and Eve and we could go in delightful circles for days on end.

youre the one who's supposed to save us, its not our job to prove non-existence.

would you like us also to disprove the existence of the flying pink kittens from Jupiter?

bonduca · 04-20-2002, 06:04 PM

Do you believe in talking snakes?

Do atheists go to hell?

Booty · 04-20-2002, 06:04 PM

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Pray. You'll need it.

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Thank you, I will. Actually I do unceasingly. Powerful stuff, care to try it?

Not Prince Hamlet · 04-20-2002, 06:04 PM

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Or you could prove that there was not an Adam and Eve and we could go in delightful circles for days on end.

Oh, so you admit that all statements have roughly equivalent intrinsict truth until proven otherwise?

Very well, then: there is no God.

Case closed.

If your statement is valid until disproven, then mine is too. You say Adam and Eve existed, and I say there is no God.

Sorry I had to be the one to break it to you, dude.

Jeff

Not Prince Hamlet · 04-20-2002, 06:06 PM

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Thank you, I will. Actually I do unceasingly. Powerful stuff, care to try it?

I'm praying that my prayers will have no effect. I wonder what will happen! LOL!

Jeff

Grizzly · 04-20-2002, 06:06 PM

Booty,

Whether Adam and Eve actually existed or simply served as a moral story is irrelevant. The question remains. Your "All-Loving" God created a place of unimaginable torture for those who disobey him. He also created us as fallible beings. We are incapable of meeting God's standards - for if we could, we would be perfect. So we all get sent to Hell for being what we are.

So we say again, is this the Love that you want us to have? How is this LOVE?

bonduca · 04-20-2002, 06:07 PM

No thank you, Booty. I gave up drugs some time ago.

God was quite peeved
With Adam and Eve.
They quarreled over fruit.
He gave them the boot.

(next verse, anyone?)

ju'iblex · 04-20-2002, 06:09 PM

Despite the fact
He had never warned Eve
He didnt care
and forced them to leave.

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04-20-2002, 05:59 PM	#151
Not Prince Hamlet Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 1,309	Ha! That's a great twist. Forget "can God make a boulder so heavy He can't lift it?" How about: "Can God make a paradise that has no opposite?" If so, he's not benevolent. If not, he's not omnipotent. Jeff

04-20-2002, 06:04 PM	#154
bonduca Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: . Posts: 1,653	Do you believe in talking snakes? Do atheists go to hell?

04-20-2002, 06:06 PM	#158
Grizzly Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Tallahassee, Florida Posts: 2,936	Booty, Whether Adam and Eve actually existed or simply served as a moral story is irrelevant. The question remains. Your "All-Loving" God created a place of unimaginable torture for those who disobey him. He also created us as fallible beings. We are incapable of meeting God's standards - for if we could, we would be perfect. So we all get sent to Hell for being what we are. So we say again, is this the Love that you want us to have? How is this LOVE?

04-20-2002, 06:07 PM	#159
bonduca Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: . Posts: 1,653	No thank you, Booty. I gave up drugs some time ago. God was quite peeved With Adam and Eve. They quarreled over fruit. He gave them the boot. (next verse, anyone?)

04-20-2002, 06:09 PM	#160
ju'iblex Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney Australia and beyond the realms of Gehenna Posts: 6,035	Despite the fact He had never warned Eve He didnt care and forced them to leave.

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