极速赛车168官网 Comments on: On Those Circular Proofs of God https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/ A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue. Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 极速赛车168官网 By: Elizabeth Brasile https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-173221 Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:19:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-173221 you are very intelligent and an amazing writer. Let me preface by saying I am not an atheist. But what strikes me odd is that you are the first articulate, intelligent Christian I have come across. But missing in your writings is a huge chunk of materialism. I have studied religions all , minored in college and continue to research. Have you really started from the beginning? Meaning the beginning of all religions? All religions are rooted in paganism and astrotheology (Solar mythology) what is thought of as the son is just the SUN. Would take 100 books or so to even outline how the Abrahamic Religions morphed and evolved from older cultures, such as the Persian and Egyptian, being that the Hebrews were nomadic and had taken many belief systems , an amalgam and put it into their own. This is was so common to do in antiquity. we see now how religions are and have morphed and evolve by the man sects with in just one religion. This is the very nature of man to MAKE God in his image. BTW ELOHIM in Hebrew is plural for gods "let us make man in our image". Satan is synonymous with Saturn (Saturnday, the first Sabbath) Constantine a sun worshipper changed the day to SUNday. Satan in Hebrew just means adversary as Lucifer means VENUS the morning star. This is around the world add in the 1000s of symbols and rituals that all lead back to the worship of the sun. It just perplexes me that Christians and now one such as yourself who seems to analyze and dig deep would overlook this Knowledge. When you research this you then see it so clearly as I said in symbols, rituals, dogma, tenets etc. Just Constantine and the Roman Empire is enough to understand how a Powerful Man such as Constantine would not just roll over and worship some other God. back then they changed the name of the SUN like you change your underwear. It meant nothing to him when the army he defeated were Cult Christians(remember not many were) so just to appease them he changed the name of the SUN. He was into Mithra/Apollo (the myths of the Sun also) I could go on but you seem very bright and curious and I would venture to say you would research this as you claim to be a reductionist. One most have all the facts present to do any deductive reasoning. I say this to people I deal with who come into my FB group and want to have an intelligent debate based on one book that was; translated from Aramaic, Hebrew, to Latin, Greek, German and then English. Christianity was not introduced to Western world until the around 600 AD. So then you have that. You also have the oldest bible Sinai text in London Museum that has over 10,000 discrepancies as from the King James Version. who was a hoot , a pedophile , homosexual. Yeah research that. So much there is too cover and well as I said and you probably know when you research one subject (not one book) its just years it takes and you cannot possibly write all that in one post. the SON is the SUN and at least primitive man knew that. I hope you find the higher truths. I am a spiritual human being , not a new ager for that is the morphed new religion, just an amalgam of the old, and have no vested emotions in anything is the material world. just an observer passing through.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Tertium Quid https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-141729 Mon, 27 Jul 2015 18:12:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-141729 I do believe that apologists are too often desensitized to people's honest issues with arguments--they even at times expect things that can't be expected of themselves. I appreciate when believers acknowledge this. It seems to me that people seem to be convinced of reductionism due to its utility ("success") in the sciences, which I think is somewhat exaggerated. It also seems to me that if the world is meant to be rationally understood (to a degree) than some, but not all, aspects should be approachable by breaking into distinct parts. I've found that even in something as "mechanical" or "logical" as a computer system, a reductionist approach only goes so far, even though it is an essential tool in troubleshooting and in making the system comprehensible to begin with. That said, it is not a given that everything about the universe, even in the low-hanging fruit of its physical dimensions, is knowable to a mind restricted to reductionism and algorithmic methods. Strong reductionism, as I understand the term, is a kind of grand claim that is at odds with what Huston Smith called the religious/perennial view of reality, including that of the New Testament. Roger Penrose has been critical of reductionism in science for some time. I recommend the anthology 'Nature's Imagination' for some thought-provoking writing on the subject.

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极速赛车168官网 By: MariusDejess https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-125215 Sat, 23 May 2015 04:07:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-125215 The principle of burden of proof must be collated with the principle of evidence is to be specified in regard to the time frame and locality frame where evidence must be delimited.

Then also both parties in an argument must concur on the concept of the object being disputed in regard to its existence in objective reality.

What is the concept of God concurred on by atheists and theist, Whose existence is being disputed?

Ultimately, theists claim that God is first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning.

What about atheists, what is your concept of God Who to you does not exist?

Logically, since theists are the ones claiming God exists, they are the ones to define what is the concept of God Who to them does exist.

And first and foremost for theists God is the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning; if God is not first and foremost in concept the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning, then theists who are rational and experienced with thinking on facts and logic, theists will tell you that any God not in concept the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning, that is not the God Who for them exists in objective reality.

Now, at this point atheists can bring in the principle of burden of proof binding theists, because theists make the claim; and atheists will insist on evidence for God.

Do theists have evidence for God existing?

Yes, theists have evidence for the existence of God in concept as the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning.

And the evidence is the existence itself of the universe and of everything with a beginning, starting with the nose in our face.

So, at this point, theists can invite atheists to go with theists to search for all instances of things with a beginning, starting of course with the universe itself, which science tells us has a beginning some 13.8 billion years ago, and also everything in the universe has a beginning, as also the whole universe itself has a beginning.

You will notice, atheists, that you are always insisting on trivializing the concept of God, with ridiculous analogies like flying spaghetti monster, etc.

If you want to insist that God in concept is an invalid concept, then show how this concept of God, first and foremost God is the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning, that concept is an invalid concept, and how it is invalid, without resorting to ridiculous analogies to God.

So, I said that the principle of burden of proof must be collated with the principle that evidence is to be specified in regard to the time frame and locality frame where evidence is delimited.

Do you now see that theists do have proof in term of evidence which evidence is delimited in regard to the time frame and the locality frame, namely, there is evidence of God existing in the time frame and locality frame of the whole span history of the universe (13.8 billion years), and in regard to everything in the universe which everything in the universe has a beginning in time and in space; indeed the universe had its beginning with the beginning of time and space themselves: they started together, the universe and the time and the space it is delimited to, from since their beginning some 13.8 billion years ago.

Which universe? The one where man is existing in and a part of.

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极速赛车168官网 By: MariusDejess https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-124288 Thu, 21 May 2015 10:14:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-124288 God from concept to existence: How to argue to the objective existence of God from working together to concur on the concept of God, and then to go forth in objective reality to look for God as described in the concurred on concept of God.

Is that circular proof of God existing?

For example, we are going to prove the existence of a flying spaghetti monster, and I am the proponent of the existence of a flying spaghetti in objective reality, so I ask my opponents to first we together work to concur on the concept of the flying spaghetti monster; when we have come to concurrence on the concept of the flying spaghetti monster, then we all I the proponent and you my opponents all proceed to look for a flying spaghetti monster in objective reality, using our concurred on concept of the flying spaghetti monster as our guide in the search.

Is that a circular argument to come to the proof of the existence of the flying spaghetti monster?

So also with God, proponents of God existing and opponents must first work together to concur on the concept of God, then both proponents and opponents will go forth in objective reality to search for God existing in objective reality, using the concurred on concept of God as the guide for the search.

Is that a circular argument or procedure for proving the existence of God?

Here I go: Asking atheists, what do you think about my concept of God, namely, God in concept is the creator and operator of the universe and of everything with a beginning; do you accept for the purpose of argument this concept of God? If not what or how would you like to change it, so that I would see if I could accept your modified concept of my concept of God: for when we have reached concurrence on the concept of God, then we will both I the proponent and you atheists the opponent proceed to search for God existing in objective reality, using for our guide in the search, our concurred on concept of God?

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极速赛车168官网 By: Doug Shaver https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-123463 Tue, 19 May 2015 13:14:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-123463 In reply to Boris.

You understand what "said to have" means, right? If I name one, you're not going to say it doesn't count unless the miracle actually happened?

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极速赛车168官网 By: Boris https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-123016 Mon, 18 May 2015 15:06:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-123016 In reply to Doug Shaver.

Okay, name one.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Doug Shaver https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-122908 Mon, 18 May 2015 03:24:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-122908 In reply to Boris.

Yes we know miracle workers do not exist.

That is logically irrelevant to the question of whether any real person was ever said to have worked miracles.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Boris https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-122815 Sun, 17 May 2015 15:01:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-122815 In reply to Doug Shaver.

Yes we know miracle workers do not exist. Well some of us do anyway.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Doug Shaver https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-120242 Mon, 11 May 2015 14:12:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-120242 In reply to Boris.

How are they evidence that Jesus actually existed?

His existence is a possible explanation for their existence. That is what I take evidence to be: If a hypothesis is a possible explanation for some observed fact, then the fact is evidence for that hypothesis.

Historical narratives don't contain dialog

I've read some that do. I even wrote a few myself when I was a newspaper reporter.

Real people don't perform miracle and these kinds of stories weren't written about real people.

Oh? So, whenever we read a narrative about a person who performs a miracle, we know that that person never really existed? I'd be mighty careful with that logic, if I were you.

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极速赛车168官网 By: Rufus Dsouza https://strangenotions.com/on-those-circular-proofs-of-god/#comment-119939 Sun, 10 May 2015 06:45:00 +0000 http://strangenotions.com/?p=5385#comment-119939 FAITH does NOT defy logic, it challenges it !!

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