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Philosophical arguments against the existence of God

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Because a person's face is not meant to have acid thrown on it. That is not God's perfect will for us. Our faces were not designed to be recepticals for battery acid. He did not make our faces for that purpose.
And if he commanded you to throw battery acid in someone's face? If that were his will?
 
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It's not that I can't. It is that I don't feel the need to. :)
Shall we add that to the long list of questions you "don't feel the need" to answer? The list is getting as long as the list of threads you've started and abandoned.
 
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You don't exist as I recall you saying earlier. So I am not surprised at all that you can't summon up dishonesty, intellectual or otherwise. :)
Any time you bring up this evasion, I can´t help assuming it´s owed to your inability to address the actual argument.
 
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Claims about supernatural entities, their nature, personality, and intentions.

I read the claim, meditate on it and pray. God gives me light concerning those things He wants me to know if I have no other desire but to please Him.
 
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Shall we add that to the long list of questions you "don't feel the need" to answer? The list is getting as long as the list of threads you've started and abandoned.

If you want to keep a record of wrongs you perceive done to you fine. I don't.

Love keeps no record of wrongs, so I don't bother myself with keeping lists of things people have done or failed to do. It is quite liberating.
 
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And if he commanded you to throw battery acid in someone's face? If that were his will?

I am a Christian. This means I am a follower of Jesus Christ. Being such, just ask yourself if Jesus would ever throw battery acid in someone's face.

The answer to that question will be my answer.
 
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I read the claim, meditate on it and pray. God gives me light concerning those things He wants me to know if I have no other desire but to please Him.
What of those who reach different conclusions when they meditate and pray?
 
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I am a Christian. This means I am a follower of Jesus Christ. Being such, just ask yourself if Jesus would ever throw battery acid in someone's face.

The answer to that question will be my answer.
Would the Biblical God ever command his followers to slaughter men, women, and children?
 
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If you want to keep a record of wrongs you perceive done to you fine. I don't.

Love keeps no record of wrongs, so I don't bother myself with keeping lists of things people have done or failed to do. It is quite liberating.
They're not wrongs done to me. They're a record of the number of times you've painted yourself into a corner.
 
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It's not that I can't.

Personally, I don't believe you. Add to the list "people who say we need to trust their conclusions about god tend to fold when asked tough questions" as another reason to think that all of these claims about gods are just a bunch of hot air.
 
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Personally, I don't believe you. Add to the list "people who say we need to trust their conclusions about god tend to fold when asked tough questions" as another reason to think that all of these claims about gods are just a bunch of hot air.

I just don't think what I have to say will be anything you have not heard. This is something I have had to come to realize and this realization has enabled me to move forward. I hope that you can too.
 
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