In post 73, Iano asserts: "An atheist must admit that God can exist." But this is a radical shift from the proposition of his opening post, "Even the most rabid athiest will accept that God
of the Bible could inf fact exist." (bold and italics mine, misspellings his.)
I can assert that in fact the god of the bible cannot possibly exist. In fact, I cannot even force myself to accept, even for hypothetical purposes, the possibility of the god of the bible existing. How is it possible for this to be impossible? There are two possible ways: 1) The assertion is so totally in conflict with readily known facts and common sense that the mind cannot even contemplate it; 2) the assertion fails even rudimentary logical tests. The 'god of the bible' assertion fails even the most rudimentary test of logic: self consistency. I cannot no matter how hard I try, accept even as a possibility that there is a Chevy Corvette that is simultaneously made out of steel and not made out of steel, or an apple that is completely red and completely blue at the same time, or that the moon is closer to the earth than the sun and that it is further from the earth than the sun, or that (fill in the blank). The god of the bible is logically inconsistent and self contradictory. He is ever changing and he is never changing. He is cruel and vindictive and he is loving and merciful. He is incapable of error and he apologizes for his errors. Etc., etc., etc. Apologists try to explain away some of these obvious contradictions by the dialectic device known as hucksterism, but the only device that really works is self delusion.
So Iano's assertion that an atheist cannot deny the possibility of the existence of the 'god of the bible' (GOB) is completely false.
Something else worth noting, particularly by Iano and Faith: Allah
is the god of the bible. Also, Islamists
do believe in Jesus.