RE: Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)
June 21, 2016 at 12:38 pm
(June 18, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Veritas_Vincit Wrote:(June 18, 2016 at 9:03 am)SteveII Wrote: 2. Why isn't the NT evidence that God exists? If you believe the facts of the NT, it is more than reasonable to conclude God exists.
OK, technically you can call it 'evidence' but it is bad evidence, hopelessly bad. All we have in the Bible is supposed eye-witness testimony, from accounts that don't match up, which are copies of copies of translations of copies with no originals, relating to events taking place 2000 years ago - from a time and culture with a world view so narrow that you'll struggle to find a person alive today who is as ignorant as the most educated person then. You can get eye-witnesses alive today who will tell you about their UFO abductions, you can have multiple witnesses with stories that match up. It doesn't mean there are aliens visiting the planet! It doesn't prove a thing.
So, people in the first century were ignorant and could not understand what they saw? Or is it that eyewitness testimony is to be automatically dismissed? Tell me why the events of Jesus' life are not the most documented and attested series of events in ancient history. You are dismissing them because of their content because you a priori decided that miracles cannot happen--which is circular.
