(June 11, 2015 at 10:51 am)Cato Wrote:(June 11, 2015 at 10:38 am)SteveII Wrote: I am not trying to prove anything here. All I can do is compare other religious to my list of 8 and see how they stack up. If another religions takes into account my list and theorizes a different scenario, I would also consider that religion reasonable. Again, not true, just reasonable.
Absurd. #5 is not only unsubstantiated, but necessarily excludes all other religions.
Which might be the reason I think that Christianity is the correct hypothesis. I believe that the first century Christians experienced and believed what they saw and wrote. I have yet to hear a hypothesis that has more explanatory powers for what we know and what followed. There might be a better theory out there that, with alternate explanations to the other 7 (although I would add Fine Tuning) might make another reasonable hypothesis.