Comments on: The counter-challenge http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: monado http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-47 monado Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:14:03 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-47 Why don't you use this same logic to prove that fairies are real, that Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox were a historical figures, that the Egyptian gods were real? Why uncritically swallow the "Bible is true" and not "the Upanishads are true"? Why not trust Honest John the car dealer? Simple: those are available to analysis by the logical part of your mind, but the Bible is deeply embedded in childhood prejudices and is as hard to ditch as racism or childhoood phobias. "I just believe in one fewer god than you do." Why don’t you use this same logic to prove that fairies are real, that Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox were a historical figures, that the Egyptian gods were real? Why uncritically swallow the “Bible is true” and not “the Upanishads are true”? Why not trust Honest John the car dealer? Simple: those are available to analysis by the logical part of your mind, but the Bible is deeply embedded in childhood prejudices and is as hard to ditch as racism or childhoood phobias.

“I just believe in one fewer god than you do.”

]]> By: Judas http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-44 Judas Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:35:41 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-44 Holy shit! you mean the tomb was EMPTY?! This changes everything! This is so much more plausible than say, oh any other fictional story like the Quran or whatever else. Holy shit! you mean the tomb was EMPTY?! This changes everything! This is so much more plausible than say, oh any other fictional story like the Quran or whatever else.

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-35 Daniel Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:33:30 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-35 Here is one thing about predestination... http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1993/9309fea1.asp Here is one thing about predestination…

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1993/9309fea1.asp

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-34 Daniel Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:40:00 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-34 here is that lecure thing i called you about http://dmc-news.tamu.edu/templates/?a=7031&z=15 here is that lecure thing i called you about

http://dmc-news.tamu.edu/templates/?a=7031&z=15

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-33 Daniel Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:59:48 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-33 this is about purgatory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVkmg9v5hgM this is about purgatory

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-32 Daniel Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:30:15 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-32 this talks a little about the two wills i was thinking about earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drhsJO5cZCA this talks a little about the two wills i was thinking about earlier

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-31 Daniel Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:42:29 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-31 http://www.catholic.com/library/Christ_in_the_Eucharist.asp http://www.catholic.com/library/Christ_in_the_Eucharist.asp

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-30 Daniel Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:00:42 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-30 MARCARIUS THE MAGNESIAN "[Christ] took the bread and the cup, each in a similar fashion, and said: 'This is My Body and this is My Blood.' Not a figure of His body nor a figure of His blood, as some persons of petrified mind are wont to rhapsodize, but in truth the Body and the Blood of Christ, seeing that His body is from the earth, and the bread and wine are likewise from the earth." -"Apocriticus" [3,23] ca. 400 A.D. MARCARIUS THE MAGNESIAN
“[Christ] took the bread and the cup, each in a similar fashion, and said: ‘This is My Body and this is My Blood.’ Not a figure of His body nor a figure of His blood, as some persons of petrified mind are wont to rhapsodize, but in truth the Body and the Blood of Christ, seeing that His body is from the earth, and the bread and wine are likewise from the earth.”

-”Apocriticus” [3,23] ca. 400 A.D.

]]> By: facilis http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-28 facilis Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:40:00 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-28 A good summary of the contingency argument can be found here http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5847 A good summary of the contingency argument can be found here
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5847

]]> By: Daniel http://facilis.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/the-counter-challenge/#comment-27 Daniel Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:03:07 +0000 http://facilis.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-27 here are alot of excerpts from the church fathers on a number of topics: http://www.catholic.com/library/fathers_know_best.asp here are alot of excerpts from the church fathers on a number of topics:

http://www.catholic.com/library/fathers_know_best.asp

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