Matthew Le God

When did I say that? You are now making up things you think I've said. I believe it is possible Lighthouse might have a pet goldfish and if I went to his house and saw his pet goldfish I'd then have knowledge of him having pet goldfish.

So you can't muster up anything remotely serious then!?

Hit me with your best, most compelling piece of evidence why I should believe in the Christian god rather than any of the other thousands of gods that litter human history.

I'm puzzled why you think beliefs can't be supported by evidence.

The question has been in the thread for 5 days. Will you give it a go when you have finished work then?

How does that prove I'm misguided?

You've had enough time for numerous other answers! I can understand why you might want to avoid attempting to explain how a 100% kind and loving god can drown huge numbers of people. The babies he drowned did nothing wrong, he committed a genocide of the global population because he threw a fit because his creation went wrong, strange that happened as he is supposed to be all knowing and should have known it would **** up. Pretty inept at being a god!

Go on... explain why my summary is wrong

You did not answer the question... Do you think we should follow the 10 commandments? One of them says disobedient children should be stoned to death? Should we ignore that commandment?

Agnosticism concerns knowledge... not belief Atheist & theism concerns belief Agnosticism and gnostism concerns knowledge

How have you come to that conclusion? I wouldn't ban it, but it is harmful to society to believe its moral system and teachings. Do you think we should follow the 10 commandments? One of them says disobedient children should be stoned to death? Should we ignore that commandment?

A quick summary of why my summary is wrong with do. You had time enough to write this reply and in that time you could have answered it. What did the Egyptian babies do that warranted death? How can a god be 100% kind and loving if he kills babies? Also... there is 0% archaeological evidence Jews where ever held as slaves as described in the Bible. Why is that relevant? As I just said, there is no archaeological evidence the Jews were held as slaves. The Bible gives instructions for Jews on who they can own as slaves, so the god of the Bible clearly thinks slavery is ok for the Jews to do.

Agnostic theist in regard to you owning a goldfish = I think it is possible you could own a goldfish, but I don't know you own a goldfish Belief is binary, you either believe or you don't. You can be an agnostic believer or an agnostic unbeliever.

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What unsubstantiated teachings are you claiming I've hung my hat on?

If I'm boring why do you keep positing in this thread? Is it not healthy to have your views on the Bible challenged? If they all true then any challenge should be easy to deal with.

There is a difference between interchanging words and seeing that one word is a subset of another.

How would a ban work? This isn't 1984 with thought crime.

You have taken that out of the context it was written in... i.e. towards goldfish... not god. I was using the religious terms for belief/knowledge of ownership of goldfish.

I have not predetermined the outcome. I used the evidence from the book and made a summary. I'm sure you disagree with that summary and I'd like to know what about it you disagree with?

I believe it is possible he might have a goldfish, because we have evidence that people own goldfish. I do not believe he owns a goldfish and I do not know that he owns a goldfish.

As Turkish won't answer this question, can you...?

I believe it is possible you could have a pet goldfish... but I do not know that you have one. Using religious terms I am an agnostic theist towards you having a goldfish.

You are mixing up knowledge and belief.

It isn't simply theist, atheist & agnostic. It is possible to be... 1) agnostic theist 2) agnostic atheist 3) gnostic atheist 4) gnostic theist