By: David Anderson
bornagain77, you’re always welcome. I often get called away to meetings, have deadlines, or totally forget that I wrote a story in the first place… timothya: you’ve not yet grasped the point being...
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Can we re-cap? We are currently examining the following: mankind is made in the image of God David Anderson is on the hook to demonstrate the proposition is true. Bornagain77 offers a defense of the...
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LarTanner, you also completely misunderstand the argument I’ve made. I argued the inconsistency between atheist beliefs and the manner of atheist argument – together with consistency between Christian...
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David, Fair enough, but I was responding to timothya’s request, and then Bornagain77’s response. However, I don’t think it’s wrong or surprising for timothya or anyone else to ask you to clarify “a...
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WJM, Actually, atheistic materialists should just shut up, since under their paradigm everything they are saying is nothing more than the happenstance noises that are produced by interacting molecules....
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David Anderson, Dawkins position is that beauty and awe are merely subjective chemical processes inside the human brain. They have no external reality or value What would you say gives something...
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LT, I find the evidence compelling. You may not agree, that’s OK. I’ll defend your right to be wrong. But I’ll not get into nitpicking the Greek and Latin meaning of words with you or get into trying...
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<i>"They can be justified from Christian assumptions."</i> <i>"Part of the evidence for the truth of a Christian world-view...</i> <i>"because on atheist premises, it is...
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as to: Do other monotheistic religions (for instance Judaism or Islam) provide the believer with similar assumptions? I ‘serendipitously’ just saw this short video this morning. Ravi Zacharias –...
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How about Judaism, BA? Can the “worth and importance of certain values” be justified under a Jewish perspective, or does one have to believe in Jesus?
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Well lastyearon, as Ravi Zacharias pointed out, Christ came not to abolish Jewish law but to fulfill it. As well, Jesus took Mosaic law to a higher level making our thoughts, and even every single word...
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So it’s not just belief in God that gives things meaning, it’s belief in the Christian God. And it’s not only atheists that lack the worldview to be able to speak of anything as if it were meaningful,...
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LarTanner, timothya asked his question in comment 5 and I answered it in comment 19. When you say “If you decline to give timothya a response to his request, just say so” you still seem to be missing...
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David Anderson posted this: To ask for the external justification for my position is changing the discussion for a different one. Yep you have nailed it. A discussion based on internal justifications...
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timothya, you don’t seem to have arrived at the discussion yet. “I say this, therefore it is so” has formed no part of the argument you’re being presented with. If you think it has, then you need to...
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