Jeremiah 32-34
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wolfbiblemoonJeremiah proves he is a true prophet by saying that the king's cousin will come and offer his field to him because he is entitled to buy it. Which the cousin then does, but if the king is the one who is entitled to the field then it was bound to happen? Because the fact that the Babylonians were besieging the city wasn't enough proof.
There is nothing too difficult for God (insert question about whether God can make a rock too heavy for him to lift)
God has made a covenant that the day and night will come at their proper times, wouldn't want the sun to go on strike and refuse to rise would we.
God promises to make the people of Israel as numerous as the stars, I guess they broke the covenant a lot then...
OK, Jeremiah's prophecies are not so great, he tells King Zedekiah that God says he'll die a peaceful death, the footnote tells me that he is captured by Babylonians, has his eyes cut out and the dies in prison, yeah sounds peaceful to me.
Oh well, Zedekiah gets in trouble for not getting everyone to release their slaves, guess that's why he doesn't get the peaceful death in the end.
There is nothing too difficult for God (insert question about whether God can make a rock too heavy for him to lift)
God has made a covenant that the day and night will come at their proper times, wouldn't want the sun to go on strike and refuse to rise would we.
God promises to make the people of Israel as numerous as the stars, I guess they broke the covenant a lot then...
OK, Jeremiah's prophecies are not so great, he tells King Zedekiah that God says he'll die a peaceful death, the footnote tells me that he is captured by Babylonians, has his eyes cut out and the dies in prison, yeah sounds peaceful to me.
Oh well, Zedekiah gets in trouble for not getting everyone to release their slaves, guess that's why he doesn't get the peaceful death in the end.
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Date: 2010-09-30 06:02 pm (UTC)My argument showing the fallacy in the logic doesn't presuppose God, it simply shows that this is not a valid logical argument to disprove the existence of God. My argument would fail if my attempt were to prove the existence of God, but I'm not trying to do so, I was simply trying to show that the rock contradiction is invalid.
In practice, I do not believe it is possible to prove the existence of God. I can make a good case from several directions, but proof is beyond the ability of any natural, logical methods. The only proof would be supernatural and since we are natural beings, our proofs cannot reach that area. As such, all we have is faith. Either we have faith that God exists or faith that God doesn't exist, but we don't have proof in either direction.
-- Jeff