(June 3, 2016 at 11:26 am)robvalue Wrote: Unless we can actually learn anything about the supernatural, I don't see what relevance it has.
We don't know what it wants, if anything. We don't know how to communicate with it. We can't stop it doing things. We can't do anything to it.
Until we learn something about it, it's a ghostly background figure that we just have to accept is there (or not). When we do learn something about it, hey presto, it's not supernatural anymore. And so it goes on.
Waving about a storybook does not count as "knowing about the supernatural". It counts as a story with magical sounding elements.
But you dismiss anything that might help you understand all those questions. Dismissing the NT as false is a choice based on opinion of evidence. The consequence of that choice is effectively removing any chance to answer the questions you raise. So really your complaint is without some sort of revelation, we can't learn anything about the supernatural. We agree!
You are left with the conclusion you identified: the supernatural, if it exists, is not relevant to you. Realize this is a conclusion based on your opinions and not necessarily facts.