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- From: cole@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Sandra Stewart-Cole)
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:24:06 GMT
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- You seem to be undermining your own argument. Either the Bible is a set of true
- statements of fact, or it is not. To wiggle out of the problems in Literalism,
- you take on the classic argument of translation and interprative errors as an
- out. That is a fine argument as used in ordinary religious discussion, but it
- makes pretty useless any attempt to use it to provide a base for a logical
- proof.
- In addition, to justify this you apologize for God being locked in time and
- unable to either write the Bible in every language that would ever be, or to
- establish a static language to write it in. So: God is not omnipotent. That
- makes a proof of his existence pretty useless. He can't tell the future, nor
- guide the progress of langauges, nor even inspire translators and theologians
- to always get it right. What a wimp you are proving God to be. NO THANKS!
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