Does a God exist?

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Is focusing so heavily on the NT an admission that trying to evidence the OT is a doomed project?

Except for fundamentalists, they seem to have given up on the OT. Instead they continuously try to validate the much less remarkable (from a magic point of view) NT and conflate the existence of a man with the existence of a man-God.

Even if Jesus existed, even if he genuinely died and then came back to life, it doesn't tell us anything about "God". The magician doesn't get to proclaim how he does a trick when you can't figure it out. All we'd have is a very unusual and unexplained series of events that we can't investigate further. Personally I wouldn't give a monkeys, further to scientific enquiry, which appears impossible.

The very idea that God would be involved in this charade is laughable to me. Proving these events to be true is like saying, "No really, God totally is a massive drama queen with serious issues, who has to murder avatars of himself before allowing himself to forgive people."

Really. Forgive me if I keep as far away from that lunatic as possible.