By: Bob Seidensticker
If I get a vague sense of something supernatural, I’ll be sure to consider him as a possible source.
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Hey Bob , God ( the true source), and His son Jesus who says ; ” don’t harden your heart , today is the day of salvation ”. Bob , salvation requires ” repentance ” of your sins and obviously the major...
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“The true source”? Don’t all religions claim that? Why is your religion correct and the others false? Aren’t you guilty of hardening your heart against the gods Shiva, Quetzalcoatl, and Xenu? Why is...
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Bob , to begin : i hate religion ! what i have is a personal ” relationship ” with the one true God and HIS son Jesus Christ. there are too many false religions out there all claiming the way to...
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I agree with you–I wouldn’t follow Shiva. But since we have no use for Shiva, why Jesus? Why is he any different (I mean, aside from the obvious fact that he is the predominant religious meme in this...
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Hi Bob, Still praying? Heard anything yet? I’ll bet you haven’t. And it’s all because you don’t know about: the “4 Keys to Hearing God’s Voice”. (Note: the following is an actual quote from a serious...
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Bob, doesn’t Libresco herself falsify your hypothesis? I mean, she appears to be a pretty well-informed person – loves science, rationality, all that – who has converted. Surely she belongs in your...
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No True Scotsman is definitely a pitfall that I must avoid. It’s tempting to simply dismiss any possible counterexample as not actually a serious atheist. Seems to me that this legendary...
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I didn’t follow Leah Libresco’s blog that much, but she sounds like a few people that I knew who converted later in life, several after entering into long-term relationships with religious people. It...
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Bob , why Jesus ? Jesus was either the greatest scam artist that ever walked this earth or He was who He said He was !! The Son of God who died for our / my / your sins and shed His blood as scriptures...
View ArticleBy: Richard S. Russell
A couple of other possibilities that you may have overlooked: (1) Jesus was nuts but charismatic enuf to convince other people he was sincere and really on to something. (No different, really, than...
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Richard , nice try ! As the great John Macenroe ( not sure I spelled his name right ) often said : “” Can you be serious !!!!!!!! “” . I’ve heard some excuses / explanations ? but those are crazy !! ....
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Selah: Jesus offers it as a free gift to those who will take Him up on it. Oh? It’s not a gift available to me. I can’t “just believe” in Jesus, just like you can’t “just believe” in leprechauns.
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Richard: Yes, all good options. The plausible natural explanation always trumps the supernatural one.
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Selah: I’ve heard some excuses / explanations ? but those are crazy !! Don’t like Richard’s options? Then explain them away. Blustering, “Those ideas are crazy!!!!!” simply suggests that you have no...
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Selah writes: “Richard , nice try !” I think it was more than a try. I think I pointed out 3 hypotheses that you failed to even consider. You DIDN’T consider them, did you? “As the great John Macenroe...
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[...] I’m to watch for signs of God’s presence in daily life. For more on this experiment, read my earlier post.The experiment is in response to a 2010 paper “Praying to Stop Being an Atheist” in the...
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By: Bob Seidensticker
RC: RC: A little more haiku here, please! Your comments are thoughtful and polite but a bit long. It would be a bit like living in a community of Holocaust deniers, knowing perfectly well what the...
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