(August 12, 2016 at 10:44 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: The stumbling block that I can never get passed with Steve is the fact that the NT is the claim, not the evidence. It's no more evidence for Jesus/God than the Koran is for Mohammed/Allah.
Steve's just another Protestant apologist who engages in self-serving sophistry. We're unreasonable to hope for good evidence, as it's normally understood, and we're blinded by our alleged prejudices from seeing how the patently bad evidence he wants to serve up is really good evidence. I mean, how can you not read the NT and just understand, deep down how solid it is as evidence for its own claims? Poor, spiritually blind you! How can you know what you know about the myriad ways people deceive themselves but not understand that when a complete stranger claims to have a personal relationship with a being they can't even persuade you exists, that it's your fault they can't present compelling evidence. Ah, wretched sinner! And when will you pull your head out of your ass and simply accept that circular reasoning is reasonable. How can you hurt Jesus so?!?
As for the Koran, well, that doesn't offer us a personal relationship with God. So there, Muslims and atheists!
I'm quickly growing bored with this one.
