(August 16, 2015 at 9:40 am)Randy Carson Wrote:(July 31, 2015 at 2:25 am)Shuffle Wrote: A question I always ask Christians is, "What arguments do you have to support your beliefs that a Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim does not?
The argument which is unique to Christianity is that Jesus prophesied that he would die and rise from the dead and that this resurrection gives us a reason to believe his claims of divinity. Scholars who have studied the dying and rising gods genre have determined that Jesus is not the copy-cat god; it is the other gods of the middle east that began to claim bodily resurrection in the first and second century AFTER Jesus. IOW, they are the copy-cats - not Jesus.
Jews and Muslims do not make similar claims for the major figures of their respective faiths.
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That is hilarious! The claim argument for the existence of god. Because certain claims are made, therefore god!
And you reject religions for not making a particular outrageous claim!
(It is also funny that dying and resurrection stories that predate the Christian story are, according to you, copies of the Christian story! You should be a comedian!)
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
