““Christians can’t use ‘circular reasoning’ by trying to prove the Bible by quoting from the Bible!””
No, Bananaman, Christains ALWAYS use circular reasoning, it’s just not logically valid or convincing.
“The “circular reasoning” argument is absurd.”
Betcha you misstate it…
That’s like saying you can’t prove that the President lives in the White House by looking into the White House.”
No, it’s not. I called it. This is more like when I say Noah was on the ark for a year and people who think they’re christains tell me ’that’s not in the bible!’ That’s not circular reasoning.
“It is looking into the White House that will provide the necessary proof.”
Yep. That’s why it’s not circular reasoning.
“ The fulfilled prophecies,”
Um, if the only record of the prophecy being prophesized AND the only record of it being fulfilled is in the Bible, then that’s just an editor doing his job.
We’d need a prophecy given, and recorded by more than one historian with no interest in the prophecy, and also the prophecy being clearly fulfilled, as a matter of history. This isn’t circular reasoning, this is just being gullible.
“the amazing consistency,”
Yes, yes, the two different creation accounts, Jesus’ two different genealogies, and the whole ‘Easter Challenge’ are amazing in their consistency.
And I always did like how Moses managed to kill ALL THE CATTLE IN EGYPT twice, and a third time if they were firstborn.
“and the many scientific statements of the Bible prove it to be the Word of God.”
Science?
The Bible Earth is flat.
The sky is solid.
Clouds would collapse under the weight of the rainwater they contain if not for God’s power.
Biblescience is shit.
“They provide evidence that it is supernatural in origin.”
And we’re back to the gullibility.
The ‘circular reasoning’ though, Rayray, is when Christains say ‘The Bible is the WORD of GOD because it SAYS it is!’ That’s circular.