Is God a Delusion? 6/12

Moot: Is God a Delusion? Bill Cooke, Senior Lecturer, Manukau Institute of Technology and William Lane Craig, Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada

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[Birdieupon]

8.32 seconds = the sound of defeat!

[ginganz13]

If you had any idea of the conditions he insisted on for this - er - 'debate' take place you wouldn't be so proud.

In the meantime don't take up boxing.

[mahmoudyzadeh]

@DiatonicSoul No one is tryinjg to disprove god it's just that at the moment we can't see him/her/it/them when we look into the world around us.

[DiatonicSoul]

@mahmoudyzadeh That is merely a subjective statement that doesn't disprove God.

[libertatus]

There is a video of Dr. Cooke complaining of the debate format, topic and dealing with Dr. Craig's 'handlers' as he put it.

[5tonyvvvv]

@Birdieupon The Golden Rule Atheists now use terms from religion!. lost empty Fools!!!

[mahmoudyzadeh]

Here is the basic argument for not believing in god -

It's totally useless and unnecessary, and doesn't lead to a better understanding of anything whatsoever.

Human progress has gone unnerringly in the direction of gaining better understanding of the natural world leaving less of the unknown for god to reside in - notice how WLC has to go all the way back to pre-big-bang to find a space to place God. If we ever discover a naturalistic explanation for that, then god will recede further

[ginganz13]

@terminat1 What an utter load of nonsense - thank 'god' there's not an ounce of evidence for any of it.

[terminat1]

@ginganz13 First of all, Jesus died for the elect, and not for every human being, which most people who claim to be Christians believe.

Second, salvation is a two-part process. First, God makes a person born again, and this is the moment they receive a new soul. Second, a person receives a glorified body on the last day.

The reason God's elect still suffer with pain, disease, etc., is because our bodies are still under sin, and therefore still under the original curse of God (Romans 8:10)

[ginganz13]

@ndockett81 - 'Free will' By definition is; 'the power if acting without the contraint of necessity or fate'-

therefore 'love & obey me or burn in hell' no longer leaves one with free will. This idea like most religious assertion is utter self contradicting nonsense.