Hundreds of Proofs of God's existance Options

[Billy]

Proof of God through modern day reason

Some favorites:

ARGUMENT FROM MIRACLES (I)
(1) My aunt had cancer.
(2) The doctors gave her all these horrible treatments.
(3) My aunt prayed to God and now she doesn't have cancer.
(4) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM CREATION, a.k.a. ARGUMENT FROM PERSONAL INCREDULITY (I)
(1) If evolution is false, then creationism is true, and therefore God exists.
(2) Evolution can't be true, since I lack the mental capacity to understand it; moreover, to accept its truth would cause me to be uncomfortable.
(3) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM FEAR
(1) If there is no God then we're all going to not exist after we die.
(2) I'm afraid of that. (3) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM THE BIBLE
(1) [arbitrary passage from OT]
(2) [arbitrary passage from NT]
(3) Therefore, God exists.

I stopped reading at 40ish though. It starts to get boring.

[The Fanatic]

I read it, I just think it is a stupid argument.


When I was a Christian I tended to believe that books like Genesis, revelation, etc were mainly symbolic and should not be taken literally.

This post has been edited by Dr. Gonzo: Apr 1 2007, 02:35 PM

[Mommy]

I read it, I just think it is a stupid argument.


When I was a Christian I tended to believe that books like Genesis, revelation, etc were mainly symbolic and should not be taken literally.

so you think mine is a stupid argument yet you were the one that took everything as symbolic?

my arguement wasnt stupid. You probably just dont understand *pat*

you are saying that things evolved from one another and that god could have started it

Are you thinking that the word "create" in the Bible is being used metaphorically/symbolically? Thats a really idiotic assumption if you ask me. As earlier stated, the word "created" implies something from nothing. Evolution is solid in that things EVOLVE FROM OTHER THINGS... IE HUMANS EVOLVED FROM APES so on and so on. It specifically says in the King James version of the Bible (which I realize is a translation from the Hebrew version, but in their version they use a word meaning the exact same thing) that God CREATED Adam and he MADE Eve from Adam, meaning that Eve was not created because God used a rib from Adam.

If you want to take the Bible as symbolic, thats fine; but to tie evolution and creation together is really stupid in my opinion. Even though evolution does not explain how the world began, it does explain how single-celled organisms developed into animals/plants/humans/etc which is completely contradictory to the word CREATE

[Jim]

so you think mine is a stupid argument yet you were the one that took everything as symbolic?

my arguement wasnt stupid. You probably just dont understand *pat*

you are saying that things evolved from one another and that god could have started it

Are you thinking that the word "create" in the Bible is being used metaphorically/symbolically? Thats a really idiotic assumption if you ask me. As earlier stated, the word "created" implies something from nothing. Evolution is solid in that things EVOLVE FROM OTHER THINGS... IE HUMANS EVOLVED FROM APES so on and so on. It specifically says in the King James version of the Bible (which I realize is a translation from the Hebrew version, but in their version they use a word meaning the exact same thing) that God CREATED Adam and he MADE Eve from Adam, meaning that Eve was not created because God used a rib from Adam.

If you want to take the Bible as symbolic, thats fine; but to tie evolution and creation together is really stupid in my opinion. Even though evolution does not explain how the world began, it does explain how single-celled organisms developed into animals/plants/humans/etc which is completely contradictory to the word CREATE

Here we go assuming the first meaning of create is the only.

[Mommy]

Here we go assuming the first meaning of create is the only.

Im sorry, but its pretty idiotic in my opinion to keep throwing in those types of comments.

Maybe God is just symbolic of a table. Maybe the first meaning of "god" was really "table"

Dumb.

even the hebrew version which was written in the time of moses specifically said a word that meant "something from nothing"

[The Fanatic]

Im sorry, but its pretty idiotic in my opinion to keep throwing in those types of comments.

Maybe God is just symbolic of a table. Maybe the first meaning of "god" was really "table"

Dumb.

even the hebrew version which was written in the time of moses specifically said a word that meant "something from nothing"

So you know Hebrew? Kudos.

I really don't care since I don't even believe in that book of fairy tales, but I see your point. Maybe symbolic was the wrong word choice. Perhaps ignorance on the part of ancient peoples who created god in the first place.

[Mommy]

Perhaps ignorance on the part of ancient peoples who created god in the first place.

exactly.