What's the utility of faith?

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Re: What's the utility of faith?

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I understand each of the statements above. Just like I know what it means to be a square and I know what it means to be a circle. The problem with the Trinity is not that it is difficult to understand.

And since you can't reconcile those statement, the conclusions others have drawn must be false. I get it.
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Re: What's the utility of faith?

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Hoops wrote:

I understand each of the statements above. Just like I know what it means to be a square and I know what it means to be a circle. The problem with the Trinity is not that it is difficult to understand.

And since you can't reconcile those statement, the conclusions others have drawn must be false. I get it.


And just because you can't draw a square circle, we have to assume that they can't be drawn and don't exist. Just because you never personally have never met a married bachelor doesn't mean that they aren't people too. I get it.
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And just because you can't draw a square circle, we have to assume that they can't be drawn and don't exist. Just because you never personally have never met a married bachelor doesn't mean that they aren't people too. I get it.

Because you've arbitrarily assigned a name to something in order to represent its properties must mean that you can do that for everything. I.e. there is no such thing as a square circle then the Christian and Biblical concept of the Trinity is false.

I get it.
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Re: What's the utility of faith?

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Hoops wrote:

And just because you can't draw a square circle, we have to assume that they can't be drawn and don't exist. Just because you never personally have never met a married bachelor doesn't mean that they aren't people too. I get it.

Because you've arbitrarily assigned a name to something in order to represent its properties must mean that you can do that for everything. I.e. there is no such thing as a square circle then the Christian and Biblical concept of the Trinity is false.

I get it.


Self-contradictory entities do not exist. Agree or disagree?
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Re: What's the utility of faith?

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There are 11 eye witnesses for the Book of Mormon how come you don't believe in that? It holds up in a court room.



Mind's eye witnesses. Read your history. There are no eye witness to the Golden plates and/or the Book of Mormon.
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dogmatic wrote:

There are 11 eye witnesses for the Book of Mormon how come you don't believe in that? It holds up in a court room.



Mind's eye witnesses. Read your history. There are no eye witness to the Golden plates and/or the Book of Mormon.


Read the whole thread. I know it's long but you will see why I am bringing this up. I know the 11 witnesses is a bunch of crap but I was just making a point with mormonx. Just because there are "witnesses" does not mean that is evidence.
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Re: What's the utility of faith?

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Nightlion wrote:
Buffalo wrote:The universe has zero total energy. All the energy in all the planets and stars etc is counterbalanced by the negative energy of gravity. The sum total is zero. So yes, the universe could definitely come into being without any intelligent intervention. Universes may pop into existence all the time through quantum fluctuations.

This sort of stuff is what gets written on the comedy club walls in heaven.


You're right. Science is fake. God manifests himself through bad cartoons on mountains.
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