N.Wells
Posts: 1836 Joined: Oct. 2005
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Quote (GaryGaulin @ Sep. 19 2014,20:31) | Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Sep. 19 2014,02:32) | A red herring is a different concept from reductio ad absurdum, and N. Wells is engaging in the latter, not the former. |
When an opponent needs to rely on their philosophy/religion of Naturalism to argue that God is “supernatural” that is their personal religious belief, not mine, nor is it science. It's just another red-herring. |
That's not my belief - it's a standard article of christian faith that their god is not flesh and blood but spirit*. Deities are by definition supernatural (how can the christian god be natural if it is supposed to have created nature?), or do you now wish to have your own special definitions of deity and supernatural to go along with your stupid use of "intelligence"? Do you want to insist that the christian god is supposed to be corporeal and has a Quote | body (or modeling platform) with motor muscles (proteins, electric speaker, electronic “write” to a screen) | The religious folk are going to be even less happy with you than the science folk.
Quote | God is a Spirit1 and is the Creator of all things2. He alone is eternal (has always existed3) and is the self–existing one (He is complerely self–sufficient and independent of anything else for His existence4). He is loving5, all–knowing6, all–powerful7, omnipresent (present everywhere at all times8), unchanging9, holy (without sin10), just11, long–suffering12, gracious, righteous, and merciful13. He is the One True God (all other so–called gods are nothing but man–made idols) who reveals Himself in three persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit14.
1 John 4:24 2 Genesis 1; Psalm 100:3; John 1:1–3 3 Psalm 90:1–2 4 Isaiah 40:12–31 5 1 John 4:7–8 6 Psalm 139:1–4 7 Genesis 17:1; Jeremiah 32:17 8 Psalm 139:7–10 9 Psalm 102:25–27 10 Psalm 99:9; 1 Peter 1:15–16 11 Psalm 7:11 12 2 Peter 3:9 13 Psalm 116:5 14 Psalm 96:4–5; Isaiah 44:6, 14–17 |
from http://christianchurchcharlestonfourcorners.org/howdoes....s3.html
I'm not seeing much mention there of bodies, modeling platforms, motor muscles, proteins, electric speakers, or electronic “writes” to a screen.
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