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Replying to post 116 by Divine Insight]
My argument holds more "water" than you can imagine.
First, I am saying that you cannot apply mathematics to the situation of God and the Bible. Otherwise your logic doesn't stand. The numbers show that.
Secondly, the law of contradiction is the second law of thought - law of non-contradiction which says, A cannot be, and yet not be. If something exists, it can't not exist.
So I don't see how you arrive at A not existing with you personal idea.
Thirdly, the fact that so many people believe in a god, wheter it be Allah, Buddha, or who, suggests that a god/gods must exist.
Hence, according to the first law of thought - the law of identity - A is A, and the third law of thought - the law of excluded middle says, A must either be, or not be,
the conclusion must be God exists.
Last but not least, you are again mistaken, because Christians use the most logic, in fact the only logical, and sensible conclusion.
They logically and sensibly reason:
When crossing a barren desert, if you came to a beautiful house, well equipped in every way and stocked with food, would you believe that it got there by some chance explosion?
Of course not! You would realize that
someone with considerable wisdom built it.
Well, scientists have not found life on any of the planets of our solar system except the earth; available evidence indicates that the others are barren.
Concerning planet earth, the book The Earth says,
the wonder of the universe, a unique sphere.
(New York, 1963, Arthur Beiser, p. 10)
It is at just the right distance from the sun for human life, and it moves at just the right speed to be held in orbit.
The atmosphere, of a kind found only around the earth, is made up of just the right proportion of gases to sustain life.
Marvelously, light from the sun, carbon dioxide from the air, and water and minerals from fertile soil combine to produce food for earth’s inhabitants.
Did it all come about as a result of some uncontrolled explosion in space?
Science News admits:
It seems as if such particular and precise conditions could hardly have arisen at random.
(August 24 and 31, 1974, p. 124)
The logic presented in the Bible is reasonable.
One writer wrote:Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God.
Someone with considerable wisdom was responsible for the livable planet.
Logically, the evidence lends to the fact that God exists.
So it would seem, to the contrary, your argument is an empty well.
Furthermore, the Bible has passed the test of Primary and Secondary Source Verification.
Factual evidence that God exists.