What do you mean by "to a rational extent"?
I'm not sure how this is an error of logic. All of our thinking involves premises from which we draw conclusions. These conclusions must always be...
Prayer is not some magical device to get whatever you want. It's not like rubbing a lamp and having a genie grant you wishes. The purpose of...
But even for you and I to come together and agree that three sided objects are called triangles, we are assuming certain things, even just to...
So what you're saying is Christianity is senseless because God wouldn't punish sin, He wouldn't want a relationship with His creations and if...
So you're saying that we as human beings determine what is good and what is bad, correct? When you say metaphysics do you mean things beyond the...
Could you be a little more specific about what the natural way of things is, what that means?
So you believe there are moral absolutes, things that are always good and always bad, but we can't know what they are?
i don't understand.
the problem is How can someone claim that this is true without right and wrong? Is it an absolute truth?
But how do you know that's just how it is? How do you know that's correct if there is no right or wrong?
How can that be right?
So does someone saying that their religion is right because it is right for them make much sense?
Shane & Columbo, Well, like I said we all have faith-assumptions at the base of our view of reality, even you. Everyone accepts certain starting...
I'm sorry you had to go through that. But can we say that anything that aids in our survival is permissible? If I can expolit the weak to help me...
That is the question to ask for those who would object to imperfect men being able to accurately transcribe God's Word, which is what I thought...
Hello Shane, If the Bible is indeed inspired by God, could He accomplish what He wanted to write, even through sinful men?
slinklikegroove, Murder is always wrong. I'm assuming from your posts that you would agree. If my religion says it's okay to murder, is that...
When a Christian says the Bible is divinely inspired they mean it is the Word of God, no less. God used men to write down exactly what He wanted...
Jesus talked more about the reality of Hell than he did about Heaven. One example of this is found in Luke 16:19-31, the story of the rich man...
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