I doubt that 9 year old girl who was deflowered by a 54 year old man has the same opinion as you.

anyone got a tl;dr version of that wall of text?

the bible is accurate because the bible says it is accurate.
the bible is accurate because so many copies were made of it.

This post was edited by Azrad on Feb 4 2013 11:03am

and this got poulregar raging? :/

I am very thankful that you are doing this. Keep it up for all 10 questions!

There's no reason to try and use logic to explain your POV. It will always ultimately fall back to faith on the illogical..the miracles and such. It will always be a faith issue.

Are the 'conspiracy theories' you're referring to in regards to the similarities between religions and prophets?

Also, regardless of the point(s) you're trying to make.. where you're born is going to highly influence your religion and no matter what you say will change it. This just creates another problem, which is why would the creator damn someone for eternity for something they had virtually no control over. Indoctrination isn't something to just brush off as 'it's still their choice'. That's a cop-out that doesn't address the issue whatsoever.

don't know why people keep trying to prove the validity of their superstitious nonsense to others

that isn't even how successful conversions work

I wish I had been there, I would've torn your pastor a new one over these arguments. Ad populum all over the place and plenty of easy analogy arguments to counter his own analogies...

...pretty big talk coming from someone who can only cite a single Scripture

Dat circular logic