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If God exists are you going to dispute an assertion made by God?
If God does not exist then any old assertion can be made and it doesn't really matter who makes it as long as the person making it thinks what they're saying is true, essentially making them a mini god.
You don't yet know if God exists or not so I'd suggest you make sure one way or the other
Presenting the name of an individual whose actual existence is debatable is hardly evidence/proof. What am I to do with it? Even if I grant you, hypothetically, that an apocalyptic preacher(s) of that description and/or name existed at that time, it does nothing to establish his alleged "divinity".
Without clear, concise definitions of what you each claim to believe in, I am not aware of what you two actually agree upon.
You are the one making the truth claim, and I will not put this to a false dichotomy; I am not claiming to have a complete and accurate description of reality.
Not at this point. The statement of purpose for this forum states that philosophy is the Critical examination of the rational grounds of our most fundamental beliefs and logical analysis of the basic concepts employed in the expression of such beliefs.
Which part of "it´s not an explanation, it´s an assertion" are you having problems to understand?
If we were talking about the Biblical "God", I would first have to imagine that that this "God", that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every object measure to date indistinguishable from nothing - exists, and then I would have to imagine that this allegedly all-powerful, all-knowing entity is attempting to gather converts to a particular religion via the remote-control of an individual posting anonymously on an internet discussion forum.
The argument from consequence is fallacious. Why do you continue to make fallacious arguments?
Which "God"? The "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every object measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?who makes it as long as the person making it thinks what they're saying is true, essentially making them a mini god.
You don't yet know if God exists or not so I'd suggest you make sure one way or the other
No, I'm pretty confident that you haven't actually explained anything. You've made unsupported assertion after unsupported assertion. I'm just calling you out on it.
From where I am standing, you are not even wrong.
