RE: Convince me
December 3, 2015 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2015 at 10:20 am by robvalue.)
That's not a fair representation, as I've explained before. A one-off experience leaving no other evidence would be bad evidence, yes. A regular experience, by multiple people, which anyone could come join and see for themselves, would be good evidence.
It's not our fault that god decides to just visit a few people at a time, and then refuses to show himself to everyone so we can see him and talk to him. It appears he actually wants his appearances to be bad evidence. If he's not capable of providing as good evidence for his existence as I am of mine, then he's either incredibly feeble or he's deliberately hiding himself.
If he's hiding, then that's entirely his problem. If he showed himself to everyone, we'd know he exists. Why this should be a problem, I don't know. It doesn't mean we would have to worship him. He seems hell bent on getting us to believe he exists by every way possible except actually just showing us some evidence. So all we get are anecdotes, which objectively are no use as evidence.
If this is meant to be some sort of test, then it's an idiotic test and I want no part in it. I have no reason to want to disbelieve, I'd be very interested in a new discovery.
It's not our fault that god decides to just visit a few people at a time, and then refuses to show himself to everyone so we can see him and talk to him. It appears he actually wants his appearances to be bad evidence. If he's not capable of providing as good evidence for his existence as I am of mine, then he's either incredibly feeble or he's deliberately hiding himself.
If he's hiding, then that's entirely his problem. If he showed himself to everyone, we'd know he exists. Why this should be a problem, I don't know. It doesn't mean we would have to worship him. He seems hell bent on getting us to believe he exists by every way possible except actually just showing us some evidence. So all we get are anecdotes, which objectively are no use as evidence.
If this is meant to be some sort of test, then it's an idiotic test and I want no part in it. I have no reason to want to disbelieve, I'd be very interested in a new discovery.
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