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It is. As you say, anecdotal evidence doesn't cut it. Repeatable and verifiable evidence does. I'm sorry (not really ) but what can't be repeated and verified, even if not yet investigated and explained, by science is not evidence, but is merely an unvalidated claim. if it is beyond the Scientific...the scientific...ohh the word thrills me even in my old age... understanding of how the material and physical world (ooh the Thrills) works, we call it superstition.
It is a fallacy to assume that everything can be proven via the scientific method. We are talking about non-physical entities here. So of course, you are not going to reproduce something in a lab.
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On the other hand, the evidence is out there if you explore it with an open mind. The evidence that the Bible is wrong, contradictory and (I believe is demonstrable) fabricated and Not eyewitness. The evidence is out there (or In there, rather), but the Open Mind and willingness to explore is just what I find too often missing.
You know how it works Jeff: "I don't care what the evidence says - I believe the Bible is True..."
The Bible is spiritual in nature and meant to be read and understood only by those who are born again. Think about it. Pastors can mine hundreds of unique sermons out of a single passage. No other book in the world is like that. So any claims of contradictions or errors from just a surface level reading is invalid.
It is a fallacy to assume that everything can be proven via the scientific method. We are talking about non-physical entities here. So of course, you are not going to reproduce something in a lab.
The Bible is spiritual in nature and meant to be read and understood only by those who are born again. Think about it. Pastors can mine hundreds of unique sermons out of a single passage. No other book in the world is like that. So any claims of contradictions or errors from just a surface level reading is invalid.
Clang! Clang!
jeff's FODI is every bit as impervious to truth and reason as omega's!
It is a fallacy to assume that everything can be proven via the scientific method. We are talking about non-physical entities here. So of course, you are not going to reproduce something in a lab.
Nobody is assuming that everything can be proven in a lab., But it is even more of a fallacy to argue that we should credit a claim or entity for which no validation exists, which includes anecdotal healing claims which have not been validated.
This includes dubious claims in Evangelical propaganda brochures and even such which have not been explained, assuming they actually happened and are not faked up in order to provide a reason to canonise a dreadful women who deserves rather to be denounced.
Bottom line, Jeff, if Science hasn't tested it to death and declared that it passes the tests, it doesn't support any particular explanatory hypothesis, including Goddunnit.
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The Bible is spiritual in nature and meant to be read and understood only by those who are born again. Think about it. Pastors can mine hundreds of unique sermons out of a single passage. No other book in the world is like that. So any claims of contradictions or errors from just a surface level reading is invalid.
No wonder there are so many sects and denominations, all damning the others to Hell.
When you can all get them to agree on One interpretation, denomination and dogma, get back to us. until then, the church(es ) are the last people we are inclined to go to in order to understand the Bible.
I'm not going to name any names as I haven't asked them whether they've been born again, but so far, my experience of Christian apologetic exegesis is they don't even know what's in the Bible or want to be enlightened about that, never mind understand it.
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The Bible is spiritual in nature and meant to be read and understood only by those who are born again.
LOL, I need to use this one the next time some Christian comes and tells me all the answers are in the bible. I can tell him it's a waste of time because I am incapable of reading and understanding it.
It is a fallacy to assume that everything can be proven via the scientific method. We are talking about non-physical entities here. So of course, you are not going to reproduce something in a lab.
The Bible is spiritual in nature and meant to be read and understood only by those who are born again. Think about it. Pastors can mine hundreds of unique sermons out of a single passage. No other book in the world is like that. So any claims of contradictions or errors from just a surface level reading is invalid.
Really?
Only born agains can understand the Bible?
Of course this is not the first time I have read such a claim, who claim the gift of discernment is only available to such individuals.
The only argument for this is deductive logic -like a lot of Evangelicals do and take out of context, but it is not explicitly stated in the Bible, so cannot be proven.
LOL, I need to use this one the next time some Christian comes and tells me all the answers are in the bible. I can tell him it's a waste of time because I am incapable of reading and understanding it.
All your post does is prove the Bible yet again
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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:14
You can't understand spiritual things if you have rejected the Spirit of God.
The Bible is spiritual in nature and meant to be read and understood only by those who are born again. Think about it. Pastors can mine hundreds of unique sermons out of a single passage. No other book in the world is like that. So any claims of contradictions or errors from just a surface level reading is invalid.
Shorter Jeff base, you can just invent what you want to avoid such problems as having 5 gods in your monotheism.
You can't understand spiritual things if you have rejected the Spirit of God.
That is a white flag Jeff if only you realised it. It is saying that you are all wrong because I have Faith and the Bible agrees with me on that.
If you had any rational and soundly evidence-based case, you wouldn't need to appeal to being right on Faith. None of you would.
You do realise that your Faith imparts Understanding that makes you deny what the Bible actually says (hate to bring up slavery again but - ) or what the graphs on irreligion said. It hardly makes us see Bible understanding through Faith as nothing more than that self -justification, because it actually discredits the Bible and the religion, even if it is a handy way of denying that you are wrong no matter what the evidence is.
And that's how Faith works and why it is Not a virtue but an evil.
Back in 1988 (Go back and look it up) I said that the whole Satanic Thing was a hoax...that I did not believe in it, that it was a myth of national and religious paranoia perpetrated by the religious right, and that mindless Caprinea encourages by the sensationalist media. And I was right.
Satan does not exist. Satan never existed, except in the minds of people who needed an excuse to justify purely human behavior. and sell seats in the Pews on Sundays.
Back in 1988 (Go back and look it up) I said that the whole Satanic Thing was a hoax...that I did not believe in it, that it was a myth of national and religious paranoia perpetrated by the religious right, and that mindless Caprinea encourages by the sensationalist media. And I was right.
Satan does not exist. Satan never existed, except in the minds of people who needed an excuse to justify purely human behavior. and sell seats in the Pews on Sundays.
The idea of Satan is IMHO the least reasonable religious belief. And it 8s certainly not universal believing in him or it.
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) but what can't be repeated and verified, even if not yet investigated and explained, by science is not evidence, but is merely an unvalidated claim. if it is beyond the Scientific...the scientific...ohh the word thrills me even in my old age... understanding of how the material and physical world (ooh the Thrills) works, we call it superstition.
) are the last people we are inclined to go to in order to understand the Bible.
