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[ThinkingSpeck]

It's the invisible dragon in the garage, all over again. The theists know in advance how every test will fail; thus, regardless of what they believe they believe, their actual internal models of reality don't contain a god with those properties.

(ignoring for now the few theists who actually do believe - those people are more deluded than most)

[L00NGB00W]

@ThinkingSpeck Until this is answered, there is reason to believe Jesus is deceitful, or at the very least, in error,or the Bible is in error.

Since this cannot possibly be the case, I've had people insist that I must have been lying about having written any numbers at all. Being a tool of Satan and whatnot... ^_^

It's funny how people can mangle concepts in order to make them fit into their personal worldview.

[ThinkingSpeck]

@L00NGB00W

Personally, I think the biggest reason to doubt Jesus is that he clearly and repeatedly said he would be back sometime in the first century AD - his followers took that at face value, and only after that prediction failed did they start interpreting such things differently.

I'll consider that you might not have written the numbers, but only once many of the other possibilities have been exhausted. That's a million million options - I'm not holding my breath...

[L00NGB00W]

@ThinkingSpeck Yes, that's a good one too. The end should have come "Before this generation dies." and "Before you finish going through the cities of Israel."

Assuming I'm being honest, It's actually closer to One-Sextillion-Ten-Quadrillion options. =D I didn't want anyone to get lucky.

Another one I like is when Jesus said that "Not one Jot or Tittle" of the Law would change, right after altering the law in regards to stoning adulteresses. "Let He who is without sin, cast the first stone."

[ThinkingSpeck]

@L00NGB00W

Granted, I only considered the first number - adding a second unknown number squares the number of possibilities.

That bit actually makes sense to me - the Law carries on unchanged, but Christians are no longer bound by it (however immoral the scapegoat justification for that is). Exceptions for the Ten Commandments are a bit awkward, of course, and cherrypicking stuff against things like homosexuality is just plain silly.

[L00NGB00W]

@ThinkingSpeck "Exceptions for the Ten Commandments are a bit awkward, of course"

I'd like to direct you to my video, 'The Ten Contramandments.' If you haven't already seen it.

Just to know your opinion. =J

[ThinkingSpeck]

@L00NGB00W

Granted, I only considered the first number - adding a second unknown number squares the number of possibilities.

That bit actually makes sense to me - the Law carries on unchanged, but Christians are no longer bound by it (however immoral the scapegoat justification for that is). Exceptions for the Ten Commandments are a bit awkward, of course, and cherrypicking stuff against things like homosexuality is just plain silly.

[ThinkingSpeck]

@L00NGB00W

Sounds like a plan. :-P

[L00NGB00W]

@ThinkingSpeck I suppose you're right. Thanks a bunch. ^_^

Now I'll have to make annotations specifying that I'm seeking a number with a decimal point. =P

[ThinkingSpeck]

@L00NGB00W

Sorry to be pedantic, but integers are all real numbers. The decimal point just comes at the end of an integer, and we don't usually bother to write it.