untitled
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:07:48 -0400
From: Mike Ryder
Subject: Re: A rebuttal to shadow extract - part 3
To: [Family member B]
Cc: [Family member A]
Hi, me again, it's time for part three
>NOW contrary to what the atheist may think about the inevitability
of
>the world and its life forms,
I wonder what you consider these thoughts to be? You need to
expound upon what they might be in order to accurately contrasting
compare them.
>the Christian has a more enlightened view.
To say the Christian has a more enlightened view is an egotistical
conclusion based on an unstated supposition. I challenge you to
support your statement.
>The Christian gleans from the bible that God did not make originally
>make the world and its inhabitants in the partially corrupt state
that
>we now see.
The Christian gleaning appears to be logically inconsistent.
According to Christian dogma God is all-powerful, all knowing, and
timeless, and God created the world. Therefore God created the
precepts and chain of events that led to the so-called fall from
perfection. It must have been foreseen it must have been allowed
to happen. To deny this is to limit the power of God. If
you limit the power of God, then why call it a God?
>And furthermore the Christian anticipates that the preset condition
of
>things is only temporary and will be resolved by means of the
>introduction of a new heaven and a new earth.
Anticipate away! These are examples of wishful thinking with no
basis in reality.
>In that future economy
>there will be no more sickness.
I think that requires that there are no corporeal beings either.
I think I can conceive of this but it would not be life as we know at,
rather a state of unembodied consciousness rather like a happy lonely
ghost if you believe in such things.
I think it more likely that in the future economy in which you speak
there will be no more anything.
This concludes my rebuttal part two. I look forward to your
counter rebuttal.
Your loving [snip]
Mike
bravenet.com