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Old 04-06-2019, 02:09 PM   #10591
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And claim that those who do use logic do not understand it, all the while using almost every logical fallacy in the book.
The only logic you guys use is the crooked kind.
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The only logic you guys use is the crooked kind.
Ad hominem! Q.E.D.
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Ad hominem! Q.E.D.
Truth hurts, heh?
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Old 04-06-2019, 04:34 PM   #10594
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And claim that those who do use logic do not understand it, all the while using almost every logical fallacy in the book.
He reacted to me criticizing his absurd "Total Depravity" doctrine, by first defining all humans as liars and imperfect. I said so what?

Therefore according to his logic, "Total Depravity" must be true.

A=B
B=A
A=B
B=A....

Ad infinitum

And claimed I agreed with him!
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Old 04-06-2019, 05:17 PM   #10595
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He reacted to me criticizing his absurd "Total Depravity" doctrine, by first defining all humans as liars and imperfect. I said so what?

Therefore according to his logic, "Total Depravity" must be true.

A=B
B=A
A=B
B=A....

Ad infinitum

And claimed I agreed with him!
See...you lied again. I never said you agreed with me. However, since you do AGREE that all men are liars, which makes all men imperfect, then the doctrine of Total Depravity nicely explains this universal truth. (It certainly doesn't conflict with it!) After all...you haven't come up with any explanation whatsoever to explain this phenomena -- other than to emulate Adam when he blamed God for a defective woman. And only someone totally depraved would want Adam as role model.
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See...you lied again. I never said you agreed with me. However, since you do AGREE that all men are liars, which makes all men imperfect, then the doctrine of Total Depravity nicely explains this universal truth. (It certainly doesn't conflict with it!) After all...you haven't come up with any explanation whatsoever to explain this phenomena -- other than to emulate Adam when he blamed God for a defective woman. And only someone totally depraved would want Adam as role model.
Give up logic forever. You define Total Depravity as humans lie, and all humans are imperfect.

Then you say lying and imperfection proves Total Depravity

A=B
B=A
A=B
B=A....

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Is that all you have? None of it presents any "insolvable problem."
Did the myths of Hercules, Mirtha, Donyis result in bringing great harm to the people who originated those myths, ...
They brought great harm to the people who believed those myths. The great book burning which followed the adoption of Christianity as the official Roman religion included all non-Christian books. (Jewish writings were probably considered Christian.) The penalty for possession of such books was death. Copies of Homer and the Greek plays such as Oedipus Rex, Agamemnon, etc. survive today because there were copies in Persia (beyond the Roman Empire) but the great majority are lost. It's as though today we know that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor and MacBeth, but we have no copies of Hamlet, Julias Caesar, Othello, etc.

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... as did the Jesus "myth" result in great harm to the Jews?
Did it cause great harm to the Jews? Greater than the harm Rome inflected on just about everyone who was not of the Roman nobility? What is your source for that claim?

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Can you prove that money and power motivated the anonymous ancient writers. You're making the claim. The burden of proof is on you.
My claim is that such a scenario does not create an "insolvable problem." If you're going to quote me then try not to distort what I say.

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And you need to address the issue of why Jews would create a myth that they knew would result in bringing great harm to their fellow Jews.
The Jews did not create the myth. The Christians did. Jews and Christians are not the same thing.

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Finally, you make the claim that Jesus never existed. You need to prove that as well.
See the works of Bruno Bauer, G.A. Wells, Kenneth Humphreys, etc., etc., etc.

In any case the resurrection claim is almost 2000 years old, if not older. The burden of proof lies with the Christians.

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Your dumb theory doesn't pass the sniff test of Occam's Razor.
Are you seriously saying that someone coming back to life is a simpler explanation than that the whole story is made up? That's real gullibility. Do you think Elvis is alive too? That NASA faked the moon landings? That the Earth is flat?

If someone claimed that Elvis rose from the dead, and their evidence for that is that there are witnesses whom they cannot name, would you believe it?

Your claim is that any scenario counter to Christian propaganda presents "insolvable problems." The burden of proof is yours. So far you have presented none.
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Truth hurts, heh?
We've discussed the meaning of ad hominem (to the man) before. It means you have no argument.
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Are you seriously saying that someone coming back to life is a simpler explanation than that the whole story is made up? That's real gullibility. Do you think Elvis is alive too? That NASA faked the moon landings? That the Earth is flat?

If someone claimed that Elvis rose from the dead, and their evidence for that is that there are witnesses whom they cannot name, would you believe it?

Your claim is that any scenario counter to Christian propaganda presents "insolvable problems." The burden of proof is yours. So far you have presented none.
Hold on one minute.

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