Re: Flood Evidence Found Using Google Earth

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On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:53:26 -0400, Gabriel wrote:

> : First, we note that according to the tale, God creates all.  Including
> : little old me.  Meaning God created me to be exactly what I am - a :
> skeptic, requiring evidence before I'll buy claims such as "God exists".
> 
> No, God created you to have free will

I dealt with the "free will" bit further down.  You *did* read before 
responding, right?  No, apparently you didn't.

> : Next we note that God expended some effort to ensure there would never
> : actually _be_ such evidence.
> 
> If you look objectively, the evidence becomes obvious.

Yet in at least two millennia, the believers have failed to produce a 
single piece of such evidence.  Tell you what: how about *you* provide 
some, since you seem to think it's so obvious.

> : This ties in to the usual "With proof, : there is no faith" line - if
> God were proven, you wouldn't need faith, : and God wants you to believe
> on faith. :
> : Thus, by the argument offered by the theists backed by the book, God :
> created me, from word go, *specifically* so that I would not - could not
> : - ever come to believe, and thus would inevitably end up condemned.
> 
> Not true. There are some that teach "only the elect get saved", which is
> not true. Is this what you've been told?

Is that what I wrote?  No.  Learn to read.

> Here's where it clearly states otherwise: that anyone can be saved and
> receive the truth of repentance.
> 
> Romans 10:13 KJVR  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
> shall be saved.

And how can you "call upon the name of" an invisible pink unicorn?  
Right, you can't.  Not unless you just have blind, unreasoned faith that 
it exists in the first place - the very point at hand.  You *can* read, 
right?