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Originally Posted by UntoHim
zeek, thanks for your retort this time. I'm just quoting the part I have a big problem with. Your one liner did not address anything about committing a logical fallacy and I think you know this. My post was quoting scripture for the most part and you call this quoting of scripture "a logical fallacy". So how did your one liner smartass "is this a threat?" quip constitute "logical analysis"? We've been over this again and again, but for anyone on this forum to consider the quoting of the Bible as "fallacious arguments" needs to find themselves a new forum.
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I didn't say "is this a threat". You might know that I didn't if you had not deleted the post. I asked, "is this an appeal to fear?"
Arguments are a kind of appeal. It seemed to me that the thrust of your argument was that people should stop questioning things you hold sacred lest they be struck by the wrath of God when he returns. What is that but an appeal to fear? The appeal to fear is a fallacy with the following pattern: 1) Y is presented (a claim that is intended to produce fear). 2) Therefore claim X is true (a claim that is generally, but need not be, related to Y in some manner). This line of “reasoning” is fallacious because creating fear in people does not constitute evidence for a claim.
Your argument that I need to find another forum because I questioned a Bible quotation is false as well. When Jesus went to the wilderness the devil quoted the Bible to him three times to make his point. Jesus disputed the devil's arguments even though the devil backed them up with Bible quotations. So quoting the Bible doesn't necessarily prove an argument is true though the Bible itself be inerrant. Since what I was doing was like what Jesus did, it doesn't seem to be a good cause for expelling me from a Christian website.