[In response to "Let me get this straight, bible based beliefs = believing in people being able to live inside whales? Arks that carry unlimited weight and burning trees that talk?"]
I'll pretend this isn't the eighth time you've said this same exact thing, but if you for a second believe in a higher being, particularly an Almighty God, then the stories make perfect sense. An omnipotent God would easily be able to do the things that you classify as "impossible."
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Yes, but since the supposed time of the Flood, which has no historical evidence to back it up, He hasn't. In fact, nothing in your Bible matches our records.
An omnipotent God would easily be able to do the things that you classify as "impossible." "
As George Carlin said, if Your God is so powerful, and nothing is impossible, I would like to see him make a rock he can't lift.
Have a nice day!
Anything is possible in Imaginationland.
Imaginnnnaeaeaaaeaattion, Imaginaaaaaaaaaaeeeaaeatiiion, Imaginaaeeaaeaaeaation, imagination imaginaaaaaaaeaeaeation ect.
A higher being wouldn't waste time or energy on inconsequential bullshit or be such a total asshole.
Your god is a lower being, actually.
And if God is omnipotent and can do ANYTHING, why did he need to rest while creating the universe? Why bother with giving people free will if you know ahead of time that they are gonna fuck up? Why end the earth with a flood when He could just snap his godly fingers and change everything that ever existed. He goes through an awful lot of trouble to do something that he should be able to do instantaneously.
Yes, true, but you still have to prove that a) that there is an omnipotent God, b) that God has changed the system in a rule-breaking way, and c) that we can actually tell when something is in fact a miracle as opposed to a poorly-understood natural phenomenon.
Keep in mind Uri Geller's pathetically small and easily repeated repertoire of magic tricks. If he was for real, how is it that magicians -- even run-of-the-mill ones with no particular skill -- can duplicate his tricks, in some cases better than he can? (And why is it that in 35+ years Geller has never come up with any new material to begin with?) Geller, by all indications, cannot perform any illusions unknown to legitimate magicians. And no objectively investigated miracle has ever proven to be anything but a fortuitious coincidence well within the bounds of scientific possibility. What do we need to look for to prove a miracle?
"I'll pretend this isn't the eighth time you've said this same exact thing..."
If he's had to tell you eight times, you're the one who's too thick to get the message, not him.
Sure. If He can create a tree, a mountain and a midgit with a touch of His Noodly Appendage, why couldn't He appear as a burning bush? After all, how seriously would Moses have taken Him if he had appeared in His real form as a floating pile of spaghetti and meatballs?
La, la, la, la, la, I can't hear you!
And funny enough, those who believe in a higher being have never been awarded with 1,000,000$, or have seen a red bunny dancing conga...............you know, it's something called REASON.
An omnipotent God would easily be able to do the things that you classify as "impossible."
Only by violating causality and the physical laws of the universe, and if you can't rely on those then you might just as well go completely mad and have done with it.
Ergo, since those things are impossible and have no evidence supporting them...
Oh, hell, it's another fundie "syntax error." Lousy Bronze Age software.
@Brain_In_A_Jar:
I apologize if this has been mentioned before but I can't hold myself back:
@answer
Obviously you believe that Peter was the first Pope because of Matthew 16:18, 19. The Catholic Douay Bible reads the scripture as follows: "I say to thee: That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
As a result, many people have believed that Peter was the foundation etc etc. However, to understand what Jesus meant it is well to examine, with the benefit of an accurate, modern translation of the Bible, Jesus’ words and their context.
which 'accurate, modern translation' of the bible are you referencing from? theres far too many so you have to name the one you're using!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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