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Re: earth to Zero:
Come now, pumpkins, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is. You do exactly what you're accusing Zero of, only you use smilies to "fall back on" instead of a "crack comment." I have yet to see you post less than 10 smilies in a serious post*, especially when you can't answer the question being discussed.
*Okay, 10 smilies is just figurative for "excessive smilies."
I think we all need to chill out in this thread. I've spoken my piece and don't have much more to say except that "Faith is Required." I'd like to ask Randolfo one last question before I leave this thread behind: why don't you prove that the Bible is true and that God exists, using someone else's made-up list of criteria you have to use in order for them to believe it? I'm not asking you to prove that the land of Palestine exists, or that Jerusalem existed 2,000 years ago. I'm asking you to prove the RELIGIOUS tenets of the Bible, using nothing more than archaeology. A bit harder than just proving that biblical lands, artifacts, peoples, etc. existed, eh? The Book of Mormon is *not* primarily a history book; it's an instruction book for getting saved. If Nephi, Mormon, Moroni, etc. had wanted to prove that their society really did exist, they could have done so easily. Why didn't they? Because proving that they existed was not and is not the point of the Book of Mormon.
Why doesn't God simply come down and say, "Okay, all you atheists! Here I am, so you can stop arguing with the theists now!" I submit that God deliberately does not show himself to them, and further, I submit that God deliberately doesn't come down and "prove" that the archaeology of the BoM exists. Why? Faith is required, that's why. He wants us to learn to walk by faith, not always getting every single detail of our religion proven beyond a shadow of a doubt before we will believe.
I'll say it once again, and then I'll shut up. FAITH IS REQUIRED.
Originally posted by pumpkinsaren'torange
lay off the crack. it just makes you hyper.
p.s. now take your medicine like a good little boy.
i see you have been accusing everyone that you don't agree with in other posts of being on crack. i guess if you can't come up with any witty rebuttals during your lame attempts at refuting what a person says...there's always the "crack" comment to fall back on, right?
Come now, pumpkins, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is. You do exactly what you're accusing Zero of, only you use smilies to "fall back on" instead of a "crack comment." I have yet to see you post less than 10 smilies in a serious post*, especially when you can't answer the question being discussed.
*Okay, 10 smilies is just figurative for "excessive smilies."
I think we all need to chill out in this thread. I've spoken my piece and don't have much more to say except that "Faith is Required." I'd like to ask Randolfo one last question before I leave this thread behind: why don't you prove that the Bible is true and that God exists, using someone else's made-up list of criteria you have to use in order for them to believe it? I'm not asking you to prove that the land of Palestine exists, or that Jerusalem existed 2,000 years ago. I'm asking you to prove the RELIGIOUS tenets of the Bible, using nothing more than archaeology. A bit harder than just proving that biblical lands, artifacts, peoples, etc. existed, eh? The Book of Mormon is *not* primarily a history book; it's an instruction book for getting saved. If Nephi, Mormon, Moroni, etc. had wanted to prove that their society really did exist, they could have done so easily. Why didn't they? Because proving that they existed was not and is not the point of the Book of Mormon.
Why doesn't God simply come down and say, "Okay, all you atheists! Here I am, so you can stop arguing with the theists now!" I submit that God deliberately does not show himself to them, and further, I submit that God deliberately doesn't come down and "prove" that the archaeology of the BoM exists. Why? Faith is required, that's why. He wants us to learn to walk by faith, not always getting every single detail of our religion proven beyond a shadow of a doubt before we will believe.
I'll say it once again, and then I'll shut up. FAITH IS REQUIRED.