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Belief Is Not A Choice
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Our beliefs (or non-beliefs even) are based upon our present understanding of available evidence at any given moment in time.
I don't believe in fairies because I am not presented with any evidence (at this moment in time) that would satisfy me that fairies exist. That could change if evidence became apparent, or even a possibility!
Likewise for Unicorns, Thor, the Bermuda Triangle or Dracula.
So the question is, how can I believe in something that I evidently *CAN'T* believe in?
I dont dismiss the Bible/God/Christianity etc because I WANT to. I dismiss it all because I CAN'T.
What is so hard to understand?
What would make an atheist a believer?
I dont know. But an Almighty, Supreme being would know. And he hasn't showed up yet to convince me....
I don't believe in fairies because I am not presented with any evidence (at this moment in time) that would satisfy me that fairies exist. That could change if evidence became apparent, or even a possibility!
Likewise for Unicorns, Thor, the Bermuda Triangle or Dracula.
So the question is, how can I believe in something that I evidently *CAN'T* believe in?
I dont dismiss the Bible/God/Christianity etc because I WANT to. I dismiss it all because I CAN'T.
What is so hard to understand?
What would make an atheist a believer?
I dont know. But an Almighty, Supreme being would know. And he hasn't showed up yet to convince me....
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do any of us read and write Aramaic? auncient Hebrew?
crikey
if they do - I will set Nigh on them - she hates everything forrin - ancient or modern
One of my English teachers did - but he was a fame theologian Joseph Rhymer -
do any of us read and write Aramaic? auncient Hebrew?
crikey
if they do - I will set Nigh on them - she hates everything forrin - ancient or modern
One of my English teachers did - but he was a fame theologian Joseph Rhymer -
Does anyone here speak Hebrew? As PP's source notes, another translation is "woe", rather than evil.
"It says what it says" is meaningless if we can't agree on what it says, let alone what it means by that. There's good evidence that Isaiah 45.7 doesn't mean "evil" in the way you are understanding it; better Scholars than you or me are agreed on that point.
"It says what it says" is meaningless if we can't agree on what it says, let alone what it means by that. There's good evidence that Isaiah 45.7 doesn't mean "evil" in the way you are understanding it; better Scholars than you or me are agreed on that point.
"It says what it says" is *never* an answer to textual interpretation.
Textual interpretation doesn't lend itself to such blunt approaches, not least because translation is often more of an art than a science. You can't just look something up in a dictionary and translate that way.
I'm blowed if I understand the reference to JWs though. The argument I and others are making can be found across the study of the Bible, not specific to denominations.
Textual interpretation doesn't lend itself to such blunt approaches, not least because translation is often more of an art than a science. You can't just look something up in a dictionary and translate that way.
I'm blowed if I understand the reference to JWs though. The argument I and others are making can be found across the study of the Bible, not specific to denominations.