Behold, atheists' new Ten Commandments

[shunyadragon]

No doubt, YECs are most plentiful in the US, but I think Adrift's imagination might be running away with him if he thinks the global atheist population is smaller than Christians worldwide who subscribe to Ussherism (interpret Genesis 1-6 literally). I was under the impression that YEC is a distinctly US "problem" (hence AiG being headquartered there), whereas religious skepticism and atheism are more widespread.

We need some hard stats now, as we're all doing too much imagining and presuming. This sounds like a job for rogue.

I do not consider YEC fundamentalism just a USA problem. The biggest bucks in Evangelism of the world is in YEC fundamentalism. The exception is Western Europe, China, India and Southeast Asia.

[Carrikature]

I do not consider YEC fundamentalism just a USA problem. The biggest bucks in Evangelism of the world is in YEC fundamentalism. The exception is Western Europe, China, India and Southeast Asia.

The exception is the major population centers of the world. Right...

[seanD]

#9 contradicts pretty much the entire list.

[firstfloor]

All laws and all gods are man made. Keep moving forward but learn from your failures.

[Bill the Cat]

in my opinion all laws and all gods are man made. Keep moving forward but learn from your failures.

fify

[shunyadragon]

The exception is the major population centers of the world. Right...

Well . . . exceptions do not eliminate the problem of the elephant in the room.

[firstfloor]

fify

In fact, you fixed it for yourself, not me. But I appreciate the effort.
Who is God anyway?
It turns out that God is what other people tell you God is. While you may believe that you can have direct experience of God, that experience is always coloured by what you have already been taught about God and therefore God is essentially people talking to each other about God. There is nothing else. You cannot conceive of the Christian God ex nihilo because the known facts about the world do not lead you to Him. This is really telling us that whatever God is, if He exists, He is definitely not the Christian God. Christianity is its Scripture and nothing else – “the letter that kills” (2 Corinthians 3:6).

[Adrift]

Christianity is its Scripture and nothing else – “the letter that kills” (2 Corinthians 3:6).

Yeah, that verse doesn't say what you think it says.

[Bill the Cat]

In fact, you fixed it for yourself, not me. But I appreciate the effort.

No, I fixed your nonsense. You have nothing but an opinion on where the idea of God came from. Because if divine revelation is true (which you simply can't prove otherwise), then God is not "man-made".

Who is God anyway?

the "I AM"

It turns out that God is what other people tell you God is.

In many cases, yes. But in the case of divine revelation, no He isn't. He is God, and that is what He is.

While you may believe that you can have direct experience of God, that experience is always coloured by what you have already been taught about God and therefore God is essentially people talking to each other about God.

Unless there was a divine revelation backed up by proof, such as with the miracles of Jesus done for the Apostles to testify of. And unless you can give me a better reason than you have given to mistrust them and their teachings, then my correction stands. IN YOUR OPINION, God is man-made.

There is nothing else. You cannot conceive of the Christian God ex nihilo

Why would I, since there is no need to conceive of that which has already been revealed.

because the known facts about the world do not lead you to Him.

In YOUR opinion, perhaps. I disagree.

This is really telling us that whatever God is, if He exists, He is definitely not the Christian God.

In your opinion, perhaps, but not in mine. The Christian God is the one that Jesus testified of, and I trust the testimony about Him.

Christianity is its Scripture and nothing else – “the letter that kills” (2 Corinthians 3:6).

Christianity is the belief in the Son of God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But I don't expect you to get that (1 Corinthians 2:14)

[One Bad Pig]

Yeah, that verse doesn't say what you think it says.

I don't think ff is that stupid. He's just trolling, as per usual.

[Cerebrum123]

I don't think ff is that stupid. He's just trolling, as per usual.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

[firstfloor]

Yeah, that verse doesn't say what you think it says.

Paul is promoting the idea to the gentiles that they are not to be bound by the requirements of Jewish scripture.

Romans 7:6 - But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Likewise, if we take Paul seriously, the obsolescence of Christian scripture needs to be recognised in our time.

[firstfloor]

Christianity is the belief in the Son of God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But I don't expect you to get that (1 Corinthians 2:14)

[Cerebrum123]

Paul is promoting the idea to the gentiles that they are not to be bound by the requirements of Jewish scripture.

Romans 7:6 - But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Likewise, if we take Paul seriously, the obsolescence of Christian scripture needs to be recognised in our time.

Like I said OBP, the two are not mutually exclusive. I think his above post offers at at least some evidence of this.

[One Bad Pig]

Like I said OBP, the two are not mutually exclusive. I think his above post offers at at least some evidence of this.

I still think he's just trolling.