RE: Paul's 500 witnesses.
May 9, 2017 at 6:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2017 at 6:38 am by John V.)
(May 8, 2017 at 3:20 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(May 8, 2017 at 2:21 pm)alpha male Wrote: Yes, faiths include unfalsifiable beliefs, and scholars disagree on the Bible. Those are underwhelming points.
Maybe for you, but certainly not for me. It's why I think that faith = bullshit is a true statement.
If you applied that consistently in all areas of your life, you might have something. But you don't. No one does. People require much less evidence for things they want to accept, than for things they don't want to accept.
(May 8, 2017 at 6:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(May 8, 2017 at 2:21 pm)alpha male Wrote: Yes, faiths include unfalsifiable beliefs, and scholars disagree on the Bible. Those are underwhelming points.
Correct. It is designed so that idiots can feel good about being idiots.
I of course disagree on your spin, but there is an element of truth there.
1 Cor 1
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
