(July 31, 2015 at 9:42 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The arguments support Christianity because Christianity is true. But they do not support the other religions because those religions are false.
Why don't you discuss this with Mystic Knight? Or one of the other 1.5 billion Muslims. They seem to believe the opposite, without any more or less justification.
The OP is actually bringing up what is known as "the outsider test for faith".
It's a thought experiment.
Could any of the best apologists, the various religious texts, the stories of personal experiences that people have from all religions, etc convince an alien from a planet that does not have any religion at all, or any religion similar to those of Earth, that their religion is in fact, the correct one?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
