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  1. Ajax

    The Return of Christ

    So you disregard the Gospels, claiming that the writers may have written whatever they believed, even in Mark 8:31 where Jesus appears to say it himself... I don't completely disagree with you, but then what makes you think that the gospel of John which was by far the last written, contains any...
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    The Return of Christ

    First we have to clarify who was the Son of Man the NT writers wrote about.. The term, "Son of a Man, is used by Jesus 80 times as a way to refer to himself (32 times in Matthew; 14 times in Mark; 26 times in Luke; and 10 times in a different way from the Synoptic Gospels in John). In all these...
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    Why "God does not exist" is a positive claim

    ‘God does not exist’ is a positive claim. but is made purely in response to the theists' initial unsubstantiated positive claim that ‘God exists.’ If theists had first provided evidence supporting their claim as they ought to, there would not be a need for the atheists' claim. As far as I know...
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    'Unliftable Stone' Paradox - Logically flawed argument people make even today

    It was meant that 'nonsensical' and 'a waste of time' apply to me. Perhaps I should have included the words "in my view".
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    'Unliftable Stone' Paradox - Logically flawed argument people make even today

    Until you (or anyone) can show that such a God exists and that you have perfect knowledge of God's attributes, everything you wrote in your OP is nonsensical and a waste of time.
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    'Unliftable Stone' Paradox - Logically flawed argument people make even today

    Do you consider it logically possible that God raised Jesus (and others) from the dead?
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    Absolute nonsense.. God's existence can not be proven. It 's a belief, not knowledge. Furthermore theists like you who from one hand pronounce that humans can not possibly know God, on the other hand they supposedly know that he is eternal, infinite, perfect, omniscient, infallible, omnipotent...
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    Exodus Archeology Evidence part 2 updated

    In 1956 Yohanan Aharoni identified biblical Gerar with the site of Tell Abu Hureira (Tel Haror). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Haror
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    It was initially 50 times a day, but Moses suggested to Muhammad to negotiate it (when Muhammad visited God for a while in 7th heaven) and he successfully managed to bring it down to 5..., right?:) Even Muhammad didn't want to pray that much..:):laughing:
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    Exodus Archeology Evidence part 2 updated

    The problem does not lie with the name of the king, but with the fact that no Philistine king could have existed for seven centuries after Abraham and Isaac lived, and the city of Gerar could not have been known for at least a millennium after the patriarchs.
  11. Ajax

    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    :laughing::laughing::laughing:
  12. Ajax

    Exodus Archeology Evidence part 2 updated

    Neither they had any idea about other events as well. We can estimate from the Bible that Abraham was born in the beginning of 2nd millennium and a century later, Isaac was born. The Philistines begun settling in along the coastal plain of Canaan sometime after 1200 BCE. Yet we read in Genesis...
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    Neurocriminology - Wikipedia You are left far behind from developments... From an old lecture of Sam Harris. Watch it, it is interesting, even if you don't agree with it. 38:45 "The Supreme Court of US has come out and said that free will is inconsistent with the underlining precepts of our...
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    It still shows though that courts accept that criminality results from the brain. Furthermore a debate has started for many years now resulting to this... for sane people.. Judging homicide defendants by their brains: an empirical study on the use of neuroscience in homicide trials in Slovenia
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    Wrong again. People with proven brain malfunctions and/or brain diseases are acquitted of offenses, in most cases even for murder. And people are not obliged any more to swear by God on the Bible. :shrug:
  16. Ajax

    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    That reminds me of what we used to say as kids when we had to carry out some work we didn't like and were trying to avoid the laughter of our friends by saying..."I don't clean the lawn because my father told me, I wanted to clean it".:) This conundrum (involving God) arises mainly with theists...
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    @muhammad_isa Oh not again... all your arguments for modal logic and timeless/out of time God, have been debunked.. It has become extremely boring.. I only replied out of respect to @Trailblazer .. It seems you can not take defeat..bad luck..
  18. Ajax

    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    Agreed. Can not fully understand what you mean by "first". Can you elaborate? Half agreed. In the sense that we are free to have many choices, but eventually we have to choose what God knows. You admitted further down that "We cannot choose something different from what God knew we will...
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    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    I don't understand what your point is and neither your hostile attitude. If you want to prove that Exodus, as described in the Bible did happen, you have to try much, much harder. The Pentateuch was written during the Second Temple period. Modern scholarship considers that the Israelites...
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    God, Free-will, and the knowledge of God - Is his knowledge causation?

    Totally disagree and find it quite laughable actually, especially your claim that "what God knows is contingent upon what we choose." First of all If someone knows our choices/actions after we make them, he is not omniscient. He gets his knowledge through surveillance. Anyone could be...
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