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thehomer:I just don't get it with religious philosophers, They are interested ONLY endless rigmaroles, I just want vairo to provide simeple evidence to show us that the god of the bible exist or at least that some of the claims that christian make are true, For example christians claim that the bible is the word of an all knowing, all god and all powerful god who created the universe and wants people to know about him. If that is true then any god with an interest in being worshiped, or obeyed, or followed, or really, anything other than being ignored, would be able to write or inspire a holy book that all who read it found convincing, clear, perfect in its meaning, and/or undeniably true. If the bible is that book why is it that many christians do not accept or agree on the text? Why do so many christians read and interprete the bible VERY VERY differently?The bible is blatantly erroneous on numerous counts and otherwise plagued with vacuous propositions and prophetic blunders, internal contradictions, historical and scientific errors, historical anachronisms and a god whose actions are ethically questionable. How can the bible be said to be a word of a god when men wrote everything that was written in it based ONLY on their world views, culture and position in human history ? I expected that even if vairo can not provide evidence to show that that the god of the bible exists, He should at least provide evidence to show that some god "inspired" men to write what is written in the bible since we can all see the bible and the words that it contains but no, vairo will prefer to run around talkking about philosophical rigmaroles that mean NOTHING. . . . . . |
viaro:Bam bam. . . How body?. . . . Please mazaje, could you kindly stop trying to impress yourself with that old tune? You're sounding like a broken record and you need to move past that anthem you've been singing on Nairaland. If an atheist does not understand how to follow a discussion logically, he should not force himself to just talk by default. My 'evidence' will be demonstrated as soon as your atheist friends school up and show a bit more maturity in philosophical discussions - and to that end I have laid out the foundation of how I wish to proceed with my discussion, and I do not wish you to distract me with that repeated song.I like some others here do not accept philosophical disscussions that lead no where because as toneyb pointed out, Philosopy is nothing other than opinions and counter opinions that says nothing much. Since you believe in the god of the bible then you should be able to provide some evidence that he exist beside some philosopical rigmarole that provides no evidence but arguments and conter arguments. Do you believe that there is a god that is all good, all knowing, all merciful, all powerful who answers prayers for example? If you do then provide evidence to show that such a god exist. When can begin with prayers, Your evidence to show that Christians that pray to their god for protection are better protected than others that do not pray to the christian god for protection is WHAT? This is an example of how brainless you can be. I believe what Revelation 6:13 states as long as you don't snatch it from its context.What is the context?. . . . .You DO NOT know the context in which the writer wrote it because you are NOT the writer. What ever vairo chooses to make of that passages is vairo's problem not that of the writer. I wasn't even alluding to revelation 6: 13 I was talking about the stories about stars of the sky fighting wars with humans as recorded in the book of Judges: Judges 5:20 From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera. Another translation puts it like this. . . .(New Living Translation) The stars fought from heaven. The stars in their orbitsfought against Sisera .. . . . .Why is it that stars ONLY fight against men in the pages of books? I do. Forcing yourself to write 'God' in lower case is not showing you as a rational person interested in dialogue, or I wonder what it takes to do the simple sane things. Not that I care any which way - it rather makes me feel sorry for folks who are quite too disturbed about these matters that they just have to keep forcing themselves to such things.On what ridiculous basis did you come to the conclusion that I am frcing myself to write god in the lower case?. . . .I am really sorry that people are so fearful an irrational about myths that the way people type characters on a key board makes them loose sleep(See, I can presume things about you, too) So, god must be written in upper case before a person is rational and interested in a dailogue? . . . . |
viaro:What is the supernatural and hw can it be objectively observed? Atheism is NOT science. Atheism is the lack of belief of the gods that theist claim exist. That's another one that "science" does not answer as it is one about value system. I am waiting for the atheist to show me a "scientific" answer for the purpose of anything.Atheism is not science. |
viaro:Vairo, Your evidence that there is a god that exists on its own independent of human stories and mythologies that were written about him by men, societal and cultural acceptance of men, man made doctrines about their various gods, is WHAT. Do you believe that there is a god that performs magic as described in the bible(Making stars fight against humans or sending manna from the sky). If you do then your evidence for this beside the myths that men chose to write is WHAT?. . . . Do you believe that god inspired men to write the bible? Your evidence that some god inspired men to write the bible beside their claims is what?. . . . .If I say that Allah created the universe your evidence to show that Allah did not create the universe is what?. . . . . |
[quote author=Tonye-t link=topic=400000.msg5575010#msg5575010 date=1267009655]Please do and i guarantee you IN THE NAME OF THE SON OF GOD- JESUS, your friends daughter's sight SHALL be restored. But one thing:- Will you believe?[/quote]I am ready, will you pay me back my cash after the experiment fails?. . . . |
Vairo, Whats up man? Hope you are good. . . .Best wishes as always. . . . |
davidylan:The athiest disbelieves because he has not been provided empirical and good evidence to show that the assertions of the theist are true. How would you prove that there wasn't a fifty-foot tall gorilla living in your closet for 5 days?. . . . . You would look up and down your closet, I guess, and even search your entire room and if you saw no gorilla, and no gorilla footprints, no gorrila smell and no great steaming piles of gorilla dung any where, you would say that there was no gorilla there. Would you have proved it? Yes, to any rational person's satisfaction. Believing in a god in the face of the complete lack of evidence for the existence of a god is like believing in that fifty-foot gorilla. . . . . . Believers have to keep making excuses all the time. . . . . . They make excuses like ''She's an invisible gorilla." "When she hears you coming she hides behind the door or becomes invisible." "She's a Zen gorilla who knows how to move silently across the room." Of course none of these excuses are any more credible than the original claim, and a rational person can see that they are just ad hoc attempts to avoid admitting the obvious. No believer would ever consider making absurd excuses like this to try and save any other kind of disproved opinion, but religion encourages it: 'have faith' = 'make lots of excuses'. So to sum up, can I prove there is no god?. . . . . Yes, in exactly the same way I can prove any other empirical statement by presenting the physical evidence. Can I convince dedicated believers that there is no god?. . . . No, because they will never accept that I have presented all the evidence, even though in any other field of enquiry they would happily accept the same type and amount of evidence as a convincing knock-down proof. God always gets special pleading all the time. So religious believers are inherently inconsistent. But that's their problem, not mine. . . . . . |
nuclearboy:Science does not claim to have an answer to everything, and it also does not claim to know it all. . . .It is a dynamic process that is always making progress. . . .There was a time when people did not even know what that the stars were distant suns or that some micro organisms cause diseases. . . .the fact that science does not know something today does not mean it will not have the knowledge tommorow. . . . . - programs on the paranormal abound nowadays.So what if programs on the paranormal abound? Does that make it any real? Different mythical stories about mammy water abound in Nigeria, does that make true?. . . .Different programs about paranomal abound means people are talking about the paranomal and thats all, it doesn't give credence to their stories, claims and statements about it. . . .Here is a quote from wikipedia about the paranomal While the results of such experiments are regarded by some parapsychologists as having demonstrated the existence of some forms of psychic abilities,[6] the consensus of the scientific community is that psychic abilities have not been demonstrated to exist. Parapsychology So do tv shows detailing psychic activity used by the US police to solve crimes. Yet we just place a blanket and say God (and the spirit world) doesn't exist.If you can provide credible and conclusive evidence that can be objectively measured to show that god or the spirit world exist please do so. There are TV shows detailing stories about alien abductions and other stuff, are we supposed to accept these non evidential claims because we see programs about them on TV? When its proven that it was the visions or "leads" of a psychic that led police to the apprehension of a criminal, do you say the psychic is deluded?I do not know if this has been done before, but even if it has it only says one thing, and that is that there is more to know about how the brain functions and more about what it can do. . . . . .It could be that there is this ability that the brain has that humans are yet to explore, discover and understand. . . . .There are a lot of atheist that are psychics. . . .Darren Bown and James Randi are just a few, google them up and see watch some of their videos on Youtube. . . . .I will recommend that you watch "The so called Messiah" videos on youtube by Darren Brown. . . . . . If there is a spirit world, it stands to reason there is a leader there. Progressing from that premise, there is a natural progression to the "God concept". Its not a dream, delusion or idiocy. Its a fact and He has right to do as He wills.If there is a spirit world out there, No body has been able to show that it exist, all we have are various claims and counter claims with NOTHING at all to show that these claims are objectively true. . . . . Saying that your god whose existence is NOT self evident but depends only on what humans chose to make of him has the right to do as he will is nothing other than saying that I can make my god do what ever I want to make him do just to rationalize what have been written about him. . . . . . .If your god has the right to do as he will, then allah also has the right to do as he wills and tell the moslems to kill of all the christians and other unbelievers no? Last time I checked allah is also a god no? and he also has the right to do as he wills no?. . . . The concept of a "good", "father-figure to only our church", "deadly and tithe collecting shylock" God comes from organized "business" Christians. The Bible provides only one definition of God BY God. It says "I am that I am". Nothing apologetic there. Other definitions include that "He shows mercy to whom He will and to whom He won't, He doesn't" and "The clay cannot ask the potter, what makest thou?" and that "He is Jealous". Words like loving, fatherly, friendly etc are man's attempts to describe something thats undescribable.The concept of god the father comes from the bible, Its funny how you are just cherry picking the definition of the god you want the bible to talk about and present it as if that is how the bible has defined the god it is talking about. . . .The bible was written by so many different people, each with a different concept of how it sees the god it is talking about. . . .To some of the writers this god they imagine is a loving, providing and protecting father figure, to the others he is a warrior, spiteful and vengeful god of deztruction and war. . . .What ever concept that came into their mind the wrote it down and presented it to the people and made them accept it. . . .Since all you have as your evidence to show for this god is the writings by which the god inventors left behind, you just have to walk on a fine line by having to choose from what they have writen and create a god out of it. . . If you want a fatherly and loving god, the bible is there for you to create such a god from, you want a god of justice, fear, spite, anger and destruction, the bible is there to give you such a god. . . . . .There is NO true definition of what Yahweh, Jehova or Elohim in the bible, infact he has different names in the bible depending on the name the writer chooses to ascribe unto him, in some places his name is Yahweh in others Jehovah and in others he is Elohim. . . . .He is addresed with different names with different meanings. . . . .All depending on what the writer wants and chooses. . . When DeepSight appears with his theories of God being something nobody cannot understand, I tend to agree with him though not accepting all his theories.Of course you have to agree with him, how will will you keep pushing your god to the relm of the unknown?. . .What you are simply saying here is that your god is nothing. . . . Some have come out of the organizations that do exactly what you have said above and many are not even seen as Christianly (by the organized churches) any longer. However, they are Christians like should be. Using the "herd instinct" christians as a type stamp for all is not right.There is nothing like Christianity because christians have no one definition of who or what their god is. . . .The definition rest on what the people want and how they chose to self project them selves as god. . . . . .There is no universal Christianity that is accepted by all. . . .Even the bible does not have a universal version. . . . .It all depends on what people make out of what the ancient people wrote down and what they choose to do with it. . . . . |
ilosiwaju:If you want people to believe anything just use the word "God said" and you will have your way. . . . .So god can write but yet he allowed men to write and assemble his book eh? Interesting. . . . . |
toba:The problem is not about god its about you and what you believe. . , You have been made to believe that there is a god that will harm or kill others because they do not believe in the version of stories that men wrote about him. . . . .You see, your entire religion and belief relies ONLY on fear, that is what makes you accept these absurd, ridiculous and pathetic mythical stories about some god figure which others invented a god figure which you have never seen, can not even describe how it looks like or what shape or form it has. How will your mythical belief function if you were not conditioned to accept it based on fear? How will you believe in all these mythical tales if you are not promised that those of you that accept it will go to some where good when you die, while those that reject it will go to some where bad(By the way the soul it self is another mythical construct). . . .The human mind is a very very complex and powerful thing. . . . .We have all been there before we all have been indoctrinated and we all know how it feels, we also know about the meaningless fear that is involved in the indoctrination and conditioning. . . . .There is NO god that will deal with atheist mercilessly, I know that you will like that god to exist, but sorry it does not, its only your imaginations and the mental conditioning that exists. . .Nothing more. . . . . . |
@Toba Do you know that there is NO difefrence between the god ot the OT and allah?. . . . . . toba:What if I point out that yahweh cannot even live up to his own standards? For example, yahweh gave the commandment not to commit murder. But what should we call it when yahweh kills the first born of every Egyptian household because of what the unelected, unimpeachable pharaoh did due to yahweh heardening his heart? How is that not mass murder? According to the story yahweh hardened the heart of the Egyptian king and ended up killing all the first borns of the Egyptians because of what their king did, Again how is that not mass murder?. . . . As for taking morality from the bible, it is good you can cherry pick the nice fluffy parts of the bible and come up with a set of ethics that doesn't put you a foul of the law. But, not all chrisians are able to do that and often the results are tragic. The bible can be used for good or evil it really depends on how the users self projects himself as god. . . . . .Just admit your preferences and don't hide behind biblegod to justify them. As for yahweh there is nothing moral, just, or ethical about him. I will not equivicate on this issue. Yaweh is not possible and he is one of the most vile invention of mankind. . . .I did not say it the bible says it. . . .As some one has pointed out even Christian apologist are now TIRED of justifying the action of the OT god, they now tacitly admitt that yahweh is evil. . .They just cover up with words like its a mystery etc and move on. . . . . - Man created god in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent. |
^^ This woman is truly crazy. . . . . . |
sinequanon:Science does NOT claims it knows all things does it? "I don't know" is also part of the scientific process. . . . Angry? Try rephrasing that so that there is no presumption in the question. Then I can answer it.On what basis did you come to the conclusion that former believers are still afraid deep down of the beliefs, but they hide their lack of confidence from themselves with humour and posturing?. . . .And on what basis did you come to the ridiculous conslusion that I am angry? Angry about what exactly? ![]() |
^^ Its possible that it could be a coincidence and nothing more, Its also possible that there are some things about dreams that we are yet to understand. . . . .Here is what you said. . . . I think that some of them are still afraid deep down of the beliefs, but they hide their lack of confidence from themselves with humour and posturing.On what basis did you come to this ridiculous conclusion?. . . . . . . .If atheist are ever afraid of their former beliefs, do you think they will be unbelievers?. . . . . . |
Joagbaje:This Benny Hinn wannabe is completely gone. . .Attack of the enemy eh?. . . . . . . . . . |
4 Play:Very true. . . I have known about this guy since 2007. . . . .Those from the north need to honour their own, if the people from the south do not want to honour him because he does not fit into their stereotype. . . . . |
sinequanon:And what might this experience be?. . . . . .How does your subjective experince point to something supernatural?. . . .Did you see a moving house? or a flying rat? Did you hear voices? Did you see an amputee regrow his/her amputated limbs?. . . .Did you see a man that died and ressurected from the dead after 2 months?. . . . .And how sure are you that those experiences of yours do not have scientific explanations. . . . . .You begin this topic by begging the questions that some atheist are afraid of their former beliefs. . . .Do you believe only based on fear or because the beliefs are actually true,I notice that most people believe ONLY because they have been conditioned since when they were babies to fear their mythical beliefs . . . . . .There is more than enough evidence thats shows that all religious beliefs are MAN MADE. . . . . |
[quote author=Tonye-t link=topic=400000.msg5544700#msg5544700 date=1266582285]Yes I am born again![/quote]Good. . . . . Yes I believe in the words of Jesus that says if I have faith nothing will be impossible for me!Good, since you believe that nothing will be impoossible for you, I will like to bring my friends daughter who has been born blind for you to pray for her and heal her. . . My friend who is an amputee will also come along. . . . Rember nothing will be impossible for you. . . . .If you agree then I will fly them to where ever you are. . . .NO kiddo. . . . |
sinequanon:I have truly over come religion and belief in all the gods. . . .I KNOW that all the gods were created by men. . . . . |
Nezan:Just the way Christians also know that the founders of their religion also killed with some injunctions from their god no?. . . .Moses, Joshua, Jehu, Ezekiel, Elijah etc if what is written about them is true then some of the greatest men the bible talk about were no different from mohammed no? Did they not all kill others because of their unbelief?. . . . . as well as the fact that allah was a god of the kuraish people in Arabia even before the time of mohammed, these can be proven by history,It can also be provern historically that yahweh is nothing more than a Jewish Idol which the people formed to give them some form of Identity no?. . . . . You mean Christians depicted mohammed having gay affairs with Jesus? Liar! Show me.Christians depict mohammed even worse. . . . .Do you guys not say that allah is an arabian idol?. . . .There is no more evidence for yahweh god than there is for allah god. . . .Your evidence to show that Yahweh exist and allah doesn't exist is WHAT?. . . . . You are just funny. Bring out evidence to show that Jesus never existed, that Jesus was a myth. If Jesus is real, then our evidences are deduced from his teachings, simple!The moslems also deduce their teachings from mohammed no?. . . . . . |
MyJoe how are you? Hope you are good out there. . . . . .Best wishes. . . . |
So sad. . . . . |
muhsin:Kai!, ya kake kirana mazare?. . . . . .Ni asalina bahaushe ne, chi kekin bahaushe daga jihar kano. . . . . . |
^^ What is this pathetic rigmarole ![]() Tonye-t are you born again? Do you believe in the words of Jesus that says that if you believe and have faith nothing will be impossible for you? I have a friend whose daughter was born blind, can you heal her? I also have a friend who is an amputee, can you pray to jesus so that he will restore his amputated limbs?. . . . .Can you do that or is the bible lying as usual?. . . . . . .Here are a few bible verses to help you. . . . . John 14 12-14 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask anything in my name, I will do it. Matthew 17:20 For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. Tonye-t do you have faith as a grain of a mustard seed? Can you heal a little girl that was born blind and also restore the limbs of an amputee? If the words written in the bible are nothing other than LIES then you should be able to do all these things no?. . . . .Remember according to the bible Jesus said that you will do greater things than the things which he allegedly did so that the father may be glorified. . . . . . |
Nezan:Stop talking about evidence because you do not even know what evidence means. . . . .Your evidence to show that the bible is right about anything and the koran is wrong is WHAT?. . . . . .You call another people's god names but complain when the same is done to your god no?. . . . . . . not a childish theoritical playbook depicting mohammed and Jesus in akward position. Do you know the age difference between Jesus and mohammed?You and your fellow Christians friends have depictaed mohammed in akward positions here so many times, so what exactly are you talking about?. . . . . Where is the evidence that Jesus was gay? I thought atheists were deluded people, and your post together with g1's posts have proven my believes beyond reasonable doubt.You guys go about calling allah and mohammed devils here no? Where is your evidence to show that some mythical devil "inspired" mohammed to start a religion?. . . .You believe in the myths, thoughts, fantasies and wishful thoughts of ancients jews whom you do not even know, myths that are completely without evidence, internally contradictory which by the way are not even self evident at all, yet you still call others deluded eh?. . .Interesting. . . . . . . |
huxley:I am good. Nice to know that you are also doing fine. . . .Best wishes. . . . |
Mudley313:Possibly. . . . . |
Why is it that when a taste of your own medicine is giving to your guys you go around crying and sulking?. . . Is this not the same Nezan that is all over the Islamic forum calling their god names and posting things that are highly offensive to the sensibilities of the Muslims? . . . . .These cry babies and their endless paranoia and persecution complex. . . . ![]() davidylan:Why do you read the Koran and the Hadiths?. . . .Aren't there more serious books you can read instead of wasting too much time reading a book you consider to be of no value at all?. . . .Just wandering. . . .It seems you are truly a senseless hypocrite. . . . . |
^^ Huxley, How have you been? Hope you are good out there. . . . . |
manmustwac:This one no be lie ohh. . .Man must wack no lie. . . . . |
inedi:More nonsense drivel. . . . .God wrote a book is nothing other than men saying that "I want you to believe my stories". . . . No god wrote anything any were, until you can produce a god and show that he wrote any book you should not expect any body to take your drivel seriously. . . . . Isnt it Funny that when men were ignorant, less creative and could only write on walls and stone that their god was also with them writing on stones with them. . .I will expect an all powerful god to write in the sky so that all of them could see even if they could not read, or even invent a better material on which his alleged words could be written on like paper and write on it, but no god was busy writing on stones and walls when men were with out papers. . . .So funny. . . . . |
davidylan:What is this nonsense apologetics? What is the lust in asking for your god to make the amputated limbs of a 4 year old girl to regrow? . . . .I thought Jesus said in the bible that Nothing will be impossible for those that believe if only they ask? Why then is it impossible for those that believe to make the amputated limbs of people to regrow? Is it because the promise is FALSE? |
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