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By that logic anyone can do anything and just claim that they're infalliable. NO. If murder is wrong for me then it's wrong for you and it's wrong for him and it's even wrong for HIM. If there can be extenuating circumstances then those circumstances should also be applied globally...

I wish you the very best of luck in your outreach here.

Hmm... Islamic people worship the same God and it doesn't seem to cause THEM any problems.

Dorkelf - that's an interesting post, and thanks for the Monkey Maths link, it was fun reading. However the document was, I think, pitched a little too high to draw much more than a grunt from most of us on here. Stating that we don't understand enough about the formation of the universe is...

While I'm on the subject, I found much to object to in that critique. (I'll admit that I didn't spot the work was some 70 odd years old when I read it though). For a start, how can it NOT be important that one of the Gospels that purports to tell the life of Jesus doesn't mention the manner...

Ahhh, so being a carpenter isn't enough of a basis to CRITICISE Jesus, but it's enough of a basis to be him? ;)

I suppose we need to go check his sources. My guess (spot the use of the term) is that they reference well known biblical fallacies that he felt he didn't have to detail. If the article doesn't have sources on it (and I can't remember) then it's my fault for presenting it as research and I...

Logic would have said that said bike would be miles away in the town centre abandoned. In order for my little leap of faith to be logical I would have had to have known that the thieves would be spooked whilst trying to get the lock off. I know that they didn't have all the time they needed...

I agree with you, actually. It's been said that nothing drives people away from Christianity more than Christians. And the Christians that they mean by that statement are ones as you described. In Japan, for example, there were street preachers on the main streets that I trod about every...

Wildbill, it's a GREAT story. As you say, I could write a hundred like it with no basis in fact that would be factually indistinguishable from yours - let's waive the "Random Internet guy" factor for the sake of pleasant conversation, otherwise nobody here would be able to express an opinion -...

He obviously has an anti-Christian agenda, Peon, that much I will agree. As to whether Christian's are the demographic most likely to solve the worlds problems... Well, I think whether you agree with that or not probably depends on whether you think one of the world's biggest problems is that...

I cannot believe that the role of the elect is a sensible way to run things. After all - in that case nothing that we do has any bearing on anything! How does that gibe with the concept of Free Choice?

Which God are we talking about here? There a bunch of them extant in that part of the world at that particular time. No, that's disingenous of me - I knew you meant Yahweh. The answer is, none of them and all of them. If you want my bare bones opinion, the God you think of as God is probably...

I believe the bible claims that God is infalliable - not you.

Because you're asking me which of the three I think the historical jesus was, and I don't really think it was one guy who was a nutcase, I think it was a bunch of different guys. See, it was by way of a joke. I didn't vote because there's no option up there that adequately explains my opinion.

I'll go for lunatic - since I believe that the Jesus in the bible is an amalgamation of historical figures. That would be a split personality... ;)

Let me answer your question with a question. What do you think happens when a God who's known to be jealous, vengeful and wrathful discovers you've been worshipping him because you're hedging your bets?

Actually, wouldn't it be a hypothesis?

I've already said that if you say to me "I believe God exists because I have faith." then I can do more than smile and nod. It's an automatic draw - I am not about to debate someone's faith with tawdry fact. If, on the other hand, you want a little science and history with your bible, then...