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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    I am not of the belief that God is a bearded man who lives in the sky. I believe God to be formless and all-present as I said in my argument. And although what I am about to say is tangential to this discussion, the Bible does not teach that God is a bearded man who lives in the sky. Sometimes Christians take a bit of artistic license on the subject, but I am opposed to this because it leads to atheists making the sort of misconceptions you have brought up.

    Now if followers of Cthulu or the FSM were to tell me that they believed as I do that God is essentially immaterial and transcendent of the material universe, but that he may choose to take on the particular forms of a giant underworld monster or a floating pile of spaghetti, I would ask them to provide evidence of this physical manifestation. And in the absence of any evidence, I won't believe it.
    Curse my lack of the word "some".

    Regardless, Ryf, I find myself confused on one point, Are you:
    1. arguing the mere existance of a being that is timeless, formless, all-present, all-powerful, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and immaterial? Or:
    2. are you arguing that the timeless, formless, all-present etc being in 1. is specifically actual jewish/christian god that spoke to abraham, moses, job etc and (by extention of my assumption that you are christian) came down to earth in the form of jesus?

    Because to my understanding the FSM and Cthulu are responses to the second argument, mainly one that asks why is it more likely that it is the specific god of abraham running the universe instead of some alien flying spagetti monster/elder god/[insert idea here] that just happens to do the same job.
    Last edited by Greyblades; 11-23-2014 at 20:42.
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