Why so friggin' confident?

Sooooo amusing. This is EXACTLY the issue with near enough to 100 % of the creationists who drop in here arguing against evolution. If we are expected to engage those maybe you should go to the trouble of engaging this guy (though I agree with your feelings on this).

Did you really totally miss the point of my post? I didn't say that this topic was anything to do with evolution.Please tell me what you think the point of my post was. I'd like to see if you can figure it out.Edited by NosyNed, : No reason given.

Unfortunately Bertot, your question is not of the same form as DA's. You are just ducking and it is obvious that you are.

The wife beating question is meaningless if someone is not beating their wife.The "what would you do if..." is a perfectly well formed question. It is not nonsensical. If someone claims to hear voices it is very reasonably to ask them how far they will follow those voices.In fact it is imperative to know since individuals have listened to what they claim is exactly the same voice that John hears and you know the kind of outcomes that have followed.ABE
The question is also directly related to the thread topic. It is asking John just how "friggin' confident" he actually is.Edited by NosyNed, : added a bit

Let's be clear. Asking about a condition that does NOT exist makes the wife beating question meaningless.Asking a question that says "If the condition existed then what?" is a perfectly meaningful question. The "if" makes all the difference. It is a shame that I have to teach you how to read English and handle reasonably simple logic but I guess that is how it is.The scenario does exist. It makes the headlines every time it comes up. The scenario may well apply to John that is what is being asked.Bertot, you missed something serious. John hears voices in his head. It is important to understand how far John (or others) will go with that. John has some degree of "high" confidence that the voices are the supreme ruler of the universe. John thinks that the surpreme ruler was perfectly right to order the death of many in the past. This is exactly the scenario being asked about. {bIf[/b] the voice goes further in what it says will John follow it? Is he that confident in what he is hearing?

This is a very good point. But there are a couple of problems; John is as evasive as you are and needs to be pinned down; and you and John and others have declared this God to be always moral and right so there is no arguing with this truly superior officer, he is by definition correct no matter what the situation.Given that and John's 99.9% confidence then there is no arguing or discussing.The situation is very applicable to John. Who knows what orders the voice will give him next (especially if he doesn't get on meds in time).