nameandnature: Giles from Buffy (Default)
nameandnature ([personal profile] nameandnature) wrote2005-01-29 11:21 pm
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Different Tan

[livejournal.com profile] ladysisyphus writes about why she is a Christian even though she cannot say unequivocally that Jesus Christ is her Lord and Saviour, which, as we all know, is the litmus of such things. People who thought that the Jerry Springer entry was intended to imply that I believed all American Christians were nutters, take note: there is at least one who is not. [livejournal.com profile] andrewducker says what I'd have said about truth and facts, in a conversation which reminds me of those I've had with [livejournal.com profile] cathedral_life.

People who read Hebrew might want to have a look at the huge thread on Creationism that developed under my post here, since some of it relies on what I suspect are standard Creationist assertions about the Hebrew used in Genesis. Or you might not: after I while, I learned to avoid the Creationism threads on uk.r.c, only popping out occasionally to ambush people with physics.

There are more photos of the musicals party, to add to bluap's. My camera's rubbish in low light, alas.

Random Flash linkage: To Kill A Mockingbird, Numa Numa. Been doing the rounds, but I mention it in case you've not seen it.

Update: I got a comment from someone recommending the CICCU mission talks this year (which have now been and gone). This has started a debate on whether God is just. Read all about it in the comments inside.

Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION

[identity profile] ex-robhu.livejournal.com 2005-02-09 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a logical problem for theists (who define God as defined above). If I were to say that Santa Claus exists, has the power to give every child who is good a present, and wants to do so - the existence of good children who don't get presents (for example) means that such a Santa Claus cannot exist (although some other type of Santa Claus might).

Logic is I think quite useful, it allows us to make a reasonably good decision on whether something is true or not. Otherwise one might believe anything. The more you try to take reason (well - and to some degree a God who can objectively be demonstrated to exist in any way) the more you end up with a dragon in your garage (http://robhu.livejournal.com/92268.html).

Re: This year's CICCU Main Event - DIRECTION

[identity profile] cathedral-life.livejournal.com 2005-02-09 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know that I define God as defined above. I don't so much define God as confess the God who is made known to us through Jesus Christ and recognised as the God of Abraham and Sarah.

See here:

http://www.garnertedarmstrong.ws/Mark_Wordfroms/Tsunami1/tsunami1-7.shtml

For what it's worth, I just love having a dragon in my garage. The problem is that she fights with the invisible pink unicorn...