(November 2, 2016 at 5:02 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Let me change tack for a moment. Let's just say that it was proved conclusively that this trult happened the way it's said to have. Let's say that either the Sun, or something that witnesses believed to have been the Sun, really did perform in that peculiarly eccentric way. No doubt at all for its being an actual historical event.
There's still a yawning abyss a thousand miles wide between that as an unexplained phenomenon and 'therefore a miracle from God'. How does the one possibly convince anyone of the other?
Was this ever answered? This is a great point as well.