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Originally Posted by Patrick Rue
discount the whole thing off that one paragraph
granted its weak but it leads into shit like hundreds of thousands of people dieing at once being judged and sent to hell, as would have happened with the tsunami
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No, I read the majority of it. God, according to most versions of the Christian concept, is an all powerful being who can do ANYTHING. The very concept of God is not susceptible to examples from this world that seem implausible, such as doing trillions of things at once.
The article also ignores that fact that many Christian denominations do not believe in Biblical literalism-that everything in the Bible is literally true. Also, many Christians have beliefs that are different than those officially endorsed by their churches. I know one preacher, for example, who will readily admit that all of the accounts of the Bible were written by men. This doesn't say anything as to whether there is a God, or whether anyone like the Biblical Jesus ever existed or not. Christianity, in this sense, cannot be debunked because no one can ever prove that there isn't a God. That is why it is a matter of faith.
BTW-I am not a Christian. My perspective-I have a degree in religious studies and relevant work in the field of sociology of religion. I guess for the purposes of this discussion you could say that I am an agnostic-it is the only rational, fully defensible position.