(May 27, 2016 at 5:25 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:Quote:The authors and early church believed what they preached even if that meant adversity.
You mean like just about every religious person, ever? Sincerity of belief is not a measure of truth, my friend. If it were, suicide bombings would be evidence that the Muslim god is real.
You are conflating a belief in an idea with the belief as a result of either 1) an event directly observed or 2) facts easily checked with those thousands (or more) that observed them. To make your analogy better, the suicide bomber would have had been taught by Mohammad, thought his message compelling, observed many miraculous signs, watched him die, and met him alive again.