Who Made God?

It doesn't take much effort. You can find bunk on page one.

The source of the Bible is human wisdom. We know that because the same wisdom is available in other scriptures, some of them older than the Bible. Rubbish. Spontaneous creation from nothing would be a birth without a virgin. I wish you'd just put things in your own words.

It's pretty clear, from the inconsistencies, that that is what happened. Dictation by a flying spook fails to explain the narrative. So does every other holy book. "This sentence is true," is not a reliable source of information. There is no trustworthy source. An unbiased source is more reliable than a biased one. When assessing the Christian faith, the less Christian the better. I have never been told that. And as I have mentioned countless times, you are the one who throws the Bible away and chooses to embrace the made-up version presented by apologists. You really should throw away those childish fairy tales. I've read lots of better ones. It is. I have it on my bookshelf. I've read it probably two dozen times, ever since I could read.I don't read commentaries about it. Why would I?

Still waiting for you to roll out one who isn't.

I would say somebody is dishonest if he tries to make the Bible say something it doesn't say - for example, claiming that God told the truth and the snake lied. That has nothing to do with the subject of apologetics.

That doesn't even make sense. If He is omnipotent, how can there be things He can not do? We've been through that. He might have lied to protect His children, etc. There's no reason to think he is. And there's a whole raft of different Satan characters that shouldn't be shoehorned into one entity anyway.

No. Existing is not doing.Try again. If God can do anything, how can He be incapable of lying? I did. Show us one who doesn't make up stories to nullify Genesis 3. So you prejudge them, not based the least bit on what they say. You're doing exactly what the apoligists are doing - making up stories to fit your pre-conceived "Truth". So roll out one who isn't. You always avoid discussing what they say. What does he say about Genesis 3? That's blatantly false. I've been asking you and asking you to present their case.

If the apologetics are high-quality, why do you keep refusing to discuss them with us?

"Making Sense of the Old Testament" is kind of a bad way to start. It assumes that the Old Testament will "make sense" if you look at it "correctly". That's the beginning of dishonesty right there.Stop spamming us with these links and actually bring the arguments here.

Well, you've absorbed enough to decide that they're "high quality". That should be enough to articulate a response.Or does "high quality" just mean they tell you what you want to hear? If there's nothing to quote, you don't need to quote. Use your own words. There's no belief and no audacity. The scripture says what it says. If you want to claim that it doesn't mean what it says, you need something extraordinary to back up that claim. The onus is on you to pony up the backup.

How is that an "overall interpretation"? It's an obvious fact - and one that applies to a lot of books. You can't use the book itself to back up the book itself to back up the book itself to back up the book itself to back up the book itself to back up the book itself to back up the book itself.... No. Why would you suggest that it isn't? You have it backwards. I can see what works. The people have to help each other if there's going to be any help because your God is flat-out not doing it. I could see that whether or not I had ever heard of the Bible. I don't self-identify as an atheist. I self-identify as agnostic.My reasoning is similar to your reasoning about the Tooth Fairy: it's just a silly idea. And the idiotic theology that you spout doesn't make it any less silly.

That's what I keep asking you. You dismiss the Bible as a dusty old book and you deny what the closest thing to an objective version of Christ said. It's blindingly obvious that YOUR version of Christ is made up by you.