Me, using the exact same reasoning:
Premise I: 95%+ of 49ers fans believe the 49ers are the best franchise in NFL history.
Premise II: 49ers fans are the experts on the 49ers.
Conclusion: The overwhelming majority of those who most understand the 49ers, believe that the 49ers are the best NFL team ever. Therefor, it’s almost certain that they are.
Exact. Same. Logic.
You first.
Premise I: Only a minority of Humans agree that the Christian God is the Creator.
Premise II: Reality is adequately explained without a supreme being that feels like micromanaging his universe.
Conclusion: The Christian God doesn’t exist.
Chimera, you are only supporting his nonsense. It is not as though he is going to look at your post and “realize” that his OP was silly. He is going to point to your post and exclaim “See! Someone else gets it!”
Except belief in god has nothing to do with logic. See the problem there?
That’s not how reasoning works.
Scientists don’t believe in climate change. They have evidence that climate change is real.
Theologians can’t make the equivalent claim. They may believe in God but they have no evidence to support that belief.
For example:
I don’t believe the OP is coming back to the thread to debate in good faith.
Let’s see if OP can provide evidence to support that belief.
So, per the OP, theologian climate deniers are thinking illogically.
Interesting. But I haven’t changed my mind. I would’ve replied sooner but I was at church. 
Just got home.
Merneith, thanks for your explanation.
I would find that interesting. I’m sure there are many out there.
Good one. I love that album.
It’s more than a feeling.
Wht do you want to know?
Please describe your journey, from presumably a faithful believer to how you came to believe there is no God.
There’s Bart Ehrman. He’s a very prominent theologian on Christianity. He grew up as a fundamentalist Christian and went to bible college. But at some point he lost his faith and no longer believes in God. However, he still has all the knowledge so he’s an active theologian.
I vaguely remember an old quote from a pastor who said it’s hard to leave seminary school really believing in God, once you see how the divine sausage is made, so to speak.
Well, that might explain why 97%+ of atheists – wait, I may be doing this wrong.
Actually, I’m pretty sure that the Bible does contain laws concerning the minimum distance the latrines must be from the camp, which would be reasonably good sanitation for a nomadic people. It’s not good enough for the needs of a city, but it’s not nothing.
I agree that Jesus, John the Baptist, etc. all of the religious leaders forming schisms at that time probably weren’t thinking (consciously) in those terms. But you’ll note that there was a time period there where a lot of new cults and beliefs were being generated, just as Mormonism was but one of several movements at that time.
Maybe there are always tons of possible cultist leaders out there, but they are only ever able to take hold when there’s massive disillusionment with the religion. Maybe these crises cause the creation of the leaders. I don’t really know. But it’s not random chance that certain moments in time cause a schisming of religion, and that’s because the veil has parted and the people need some excuses to cover the gap.
Lovin’ that.
Huh. It’s raining, as I read this post. :eek: oops
I don’t remember it, but sure. To state myself better, I would say that the Bible neither explains germ theory nor provides a road map for how to deal with it over the long term.
If the Bible is to insist on the viability of prophecy, then it should be fair to say that God should have been able to give doctrine for post-nomadic living, or given them the basic knowledge they would need to have solved it themselves.
There are only 20 theologians?
Huh. I’d have thought there would have been more…
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Then, ISTM that, as a moderator of this forum, you’d have already taken the appropriate action with this thread…