A spirit apparently is an immaterial, real non physical being, entity, figure.
For instance the spirit of fear, in the spirit of Christmas, in the spirit of great so and so .
To the spirit of a what someone says, spirit of the law or rule.
You have a written rule that serves a technical order of control or enforcement .
As long as you have done what is necessary to fit the letter of the law, you technically have not made any violation.
This is how loopholes are utilized to get around a rule if said rule wasn't specific enough to eliminate a loophole.
For example a rule for a child to be in bed by a certain time. The intention of the rule is for the child to be asleep and not be up so late most likely entertaining themselves with elements outside their room and bed. That is the spirit of the rule. Something not said or materialized in the rules.
So therefore without specification, the child that is intelligent enough knows or is inventive to go around this by still being legal but still manages playtime even in bed.
Another example, this from a well know public television kids cartoon about the parents forbidding their son from watching their living room t.v. as he was grounded in his room with no t.v.
Well he got clever and used a pair of binoculars to watch t.v. through a neighbors window, called that neighbor and said "put the phone by the t.v.".
Another example out of an old sitcom from the 1950s of a wife that specifically said to her husband " you better not let me catch you with another woman".
He said " Honey I give you my word of honor, I'll never let you CATCH ME". She knew right then he just went with her exact words to be faithful to that and that's it. That was the joke in that show but it highlights what she wanted as a complete picture in her heart or to the spirit of what she desired as an unspoken rule.
The opposing side may be thinking this is getting too tangential. But I'll make it full circle. The spirit of God is a being that is unspoken. You can't hear God. Unseen, you can't see God. There are things naturally that we specifically see that has order, design.
So a being that is an almighty immaterial being, that couldn't be the BIG BANG, that's physical. It couldn't be any theory that we know of or don't know as it spans from some scientific natural assessment as you've guessed deals with the material reality again.
Before the opposing side starts, I want to put this forward. If you're going to present that the lack of evidence that you have personally seen, that is actually one if not the weakest argument.
Ok . That just doesn't hold up consistently. I do recommend coming up with something original.
Alright go ahead.
In the forum y'all show up. Don't be scared here. I'm no challenge am I?
Do you mean to tell me there's not one atheist on here that can defend the stance of atheism?
There are atheists on this site aren't there?
Questions on the topic, send a message.
Not to be super nit picky or anything, but by god, do you mean strictly Christian god, or any god? Also, “strong argument” is pretty ambiguous.
I tweak the title to give folks a better understanding of what the previous one was. It's not about disproving God but proposing a strong argument.
So you can validly say or say that God is false. Not prove, but say it .
That was the meaning behind that former title ok.
This is ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to argue against this? You can almost never prove a negative, so this is pretty favored to you. Just saying.