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Originally Posted by Aaron W.
If God had not met me at the time that I was searching, it's entirely plausible that I would be a deist. But since I have met God, I can't honestly hold a position of a deist.
Did you have coffee at this meeting?
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It might also help to engage a book in systematic theology, as it looks like your piecemeal theology is probably erroneous.
Or perhaps you should follow Madnak's advice:
I'm sorry. I was under the impression that I was giving an example of a Christian who believes that God will come through and make good on his rather impressive promises.
Are you suggesting it's impossible that anyone would be enticed to follow by promises of miracles and good fortune?
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Are they ridiculous because you've rejected their premises, or are they ridiculous because the logical inferences (assuming the premises) don't follow? If it's the latter, then I expect I would agree with your assessment. I've seen many theists say stupid things, so I don't doubt that you've found some. If it's the former, then it should be obvious why your criticism of the argument is probably not particularly interesting to me.
Just stop right there. This is crap that applies to theists, not atheists. If someone were to come on here and make a series of compelling, logical arguments for the existence of a God, I would welcome the challenge of thinking it through.
That's why I mentioned almost getting excited for those debates, because I thought
maybe with all they hype something I hadn't heard was being said.
Nope.