[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously I:
You don't believe in God. Rather, you convince yourself that God doesn't exist, when you do in fact believe in him. You try to supress this knowledge (Rom 1:18ff). You fail, because reality is metaphysically connected with God in the sense that reality is, because it is through him.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
What is it with you people and telling me what I do and do not believe? This is ####ing ridiculous, I'm sorry. CCGR, go ahead and edit that if you want, but do you see what these people are saying? It's absolutely absurd.
Again, The Bible says that you do. Romans 1:18ff. For you to say that you don't, is also to say that you are saying that the Bible is wrong, and that Christianity is false, and that it's "####ing ridiculous" to believe in it.
You are presupposing your conclusion. You later say that you are getting dizzy with the circular logic. haha. you are doing the same thing! However, I'll explain why a little later, since you missed that reason in my post.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously, I:
In Christ we move and have our being, as Paul states. The only way for you to know anything then, is by first knowing God. Facts are what they are because of their relationship to God.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
And why should I trust Paul? Totally circular logic. I'm getting dizzy.
You are dizzy then because you are walking in your own track. ^_^ Read above.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ] Previously, I:
In this sense, you do know things, but only because you are being inconsistent. For to know anything is to first know God, and recognize Him as God. Therefore you are inconsistent because you must affirm God to try deny God. Like air: we can sit here all day and talk to each other and argue over whether there is air. In the end, if you are denying it, you are still taking it in. You are using it to inturn deny it, affirming it's existence.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
You can make these assertions, but without giving even one reason why they should be taken seriously, I can't do anything but laugh.
I gave you plenty of reasons. The Bible says this. YOu will say that this reason isn't good enough, thus asking me to justify the Bible. You are asking me to test to see whehter my "ultimate authority" is actually ultimate authority. How am I to do that? Whatever I would test my "ultimate authority" on, would have to be higher up. This is a worldview argument, as I have said before. You are not understanding the argument at all, when your respond like this. I will explain further down.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously, I:
If you were consistent, you wouldn't know any thing about facts. Because in the atheistic worldview, there are no facts. Nothing can be known about anything. Therefore, you have no basis for "rationality."
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
You're compeltely making #### up right now. This is coming straight from your ass to my computer screen. Why? You must explain why!
Because the Bible says so.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously, I:
In the anti-theists worldview, things happen by chance.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
Yes, some things happen by chance, but not everything...stop making things up!
I'm not making this up. I want you to prove me wrong. Explain how things don't happen by chance.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously, I:
There is either no particulars, or there are no universals in the world.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
Sure there are, such as scientific laws. Oooh, the "s" word!
There you go just assumign that the world is rational. You are assuming that there is universality. What is a "law" Timor? Explain to me a scientific law, and I will show you that it is you are using induction, and you don't even have justification for that. Ever heard of David Hume's problem of induction. It's sort of like this. How do you know that there is universality in the world? You have never experienced it, so you must appeal to something "higher" if you are going to assume it. You don't, since you are autonomous (or at least claim to be), so what are laws but nothing more than observations of things that happened a certain way? For the Atheist, laws of science are more like a history of what happened, rather than a guarantee of what's going to happen. For instance the "law" of gravity. What guarantee do you have that there will be gravity in 10 seconds? Because there was gravity in the past? And in the past, there has been gravity in the past? This would be using induction to prove induction, an obvious flaw. Hence, Hume's problem of induction and refutation of the Atheists concept of universality.
Explain to me what a "law" is Timor. Oooh the "l" word. Explain to me what "universality" is Timor. The "u" word. Because your "science" seems to be based upon a concept you don't even believe in.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously, I:
This is the philosophical problem of the one and the many. Your worldview thus doesn't account for "rationality." Your worldview does not account for "logic" (as you so kindly termed it).
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
You're not giving any reasons for this. I can just as easily say the exact same thing about your worldview. In fact, I will. Your worldview doesn't account for "rationality" or "logic". There. I don't even have to give any reasons why, apparently. I just say it, and its true!
I explained how it did at the bottom of my post -- in my definition of God and how facts relate to him. I have universality because things are how they are in relation to God's perfect plan. I know logic because facts lie in God and he is unchanging. I know there is regularity because God created the world and he promises to sustain it as such.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Previously, I:
You argue that Christianity has "logical fallacies" and I am saying you must first define this. Because I'm saying that to argue that Christianity has "logical fallacies" you must first presuppose Christianity in order to know logical fallacies. In order to know anything. Therefore you must first presuppose what you are trying to disprove -- hence, being inconsistent.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
Blah blah blah, you're a a seriously broken record, but there are more problems than the pin.
You have avoiding my arguments since the beginning. Trying to mock me, isn't an answering of my arguments.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
Listen, I realize there's still another half to your post, but I've got to go, and its really not even worth wasting time over.
Of course arguing your worldview isn't worth wasting your time. You would rather assume that you are correct!! He in the dark is afriad of the light because it shows him his sin.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Timor:
I am seriously depressed that I belong to the same species as you -- I am going to go cry, then I'm going to bed.
Of course you are! The nonChristian should be depressed because he has no future exept that of damnation as long as he tries to be automonous. He knows he's a creature of the Creator, yet he tries to make himself be in the position of the Creator, by trying to be autonomous. He fails everytime though, and realizes he is breaking God's law and will be punished for it.
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As for as you complaining about my circular logic. This is where worldviews argue. I am saying that you believe in God, because the Bible, my ultimate authority, says so. You say that this is not the case. My saying that you believe in God presupposes that God exists. Your saying that you don't, presupposes that God does not. Therefore both of our arguments are circular, because both of our shown ultimate authorities disagree. Thereofre at bottom we don't agree on anything, and when we speak we appear to be "presupposing our conclusions" and being "circular." This is an epistemological discussion though, adn arguments will be like that. It isn't bad logic. It's epistemological argumetns against ultimate authorities. Here lies the antithesis.
If this were merely it, we would have nothing more to say, because there would be no point of contact. However, my worldview says that you truly believe the Bible to be your ultimate authority as well. My worldview says that we both share the same ultimate authority and you try to suppress yours and be autonomous. However you fail, because in autonomy you could know
nothing because you wouldn't have any relationship with
anything. The reason you know anything is because you know God (even while you deny him) and it is in Him where knowledge lies.
For the remainder of the discussion, I will be attacking your worldview, and showing it's absurdity. Please answer my questions above. I really want to continue this discussion, so please don't shy away.