Re: The Right-Wrong Hologram

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "David V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter) wrote
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> > > > "David V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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> > > > > Gorne wrote:
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> > > > > > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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> > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (millie) wrote
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> > > > > > > > > I believe in GOD
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > agree!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Which god?
> > >
> > > In the God that so loved the world that he gave His
> > > one and only Son, and said that whoever believes in
> > > him shall not perish but have eternal life.
> > >
> > > In this God.
> >
> > Well, that's a pretty silly god to believe in. Why
> > would an omniscient, omnibenevolent, god have to create
> > a son, and then have that son killed off just to
> > forgive me for a sin I didn't commit? Why all the
> > games? Why not just forgive? Would you kill your child
> > to forgive me for something I didn't do?
> >
> > And this god so loved the world that he gave us Hitler,
> > Pol Pot, GW Bush, cancer, the common cold, and so on?
> > To me, that's not a very loving god.
> >
> > Oh, another thing, lets say that over the years a few 
> > billion people have believed in this god. Many of those
> > billions are dead. You claimed that they would live
> > forever, but they didn't. Why would you lie about such
> > a thing?
> >
> > You'd probably be better off finding a different god to
> > believe in.
>
> Why?...

For all the reasons above.

> It was people who killed God's son.

They were supposed to. What kind of religion would you have
if they didn't?

> We have a choice.

If you god is omniscient, then no; we do not have choices.

> God can change any mind if you allow Him to do so.

If you god is omniscient, then it cannot change its mind...
if it has a mind.

Anyway, not what you've narrowed it down to the christian
god, you need to prove that that god exists and in the
process you have to disprove all the other gods.
--
David V.
Yosemite Llama Ranch

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