Paul's 500 witnesses.

[Amarok]

Miracles are necessarily rare.

Really do explain

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.

Once again that's you projecting your irrationality on everyone else.

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The Bible itself addresses this. There's value in the searching itself. In some cases it's also a matter of judgment. But again, God works with those who desire to follow him.

Also note that God gives over some people to their rejection during their lifetime. He isn't striving with every person up to the moment they die.

Translation there's how we Christians try and explain away people who wake up to the fact our cult is bullshit. So we can keep those still in bondage to our nonsense in bondage to it.

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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.

Yup pure cult propaganda right there. "If all these smart educated people keep showing our cult is a bunch of bullshit ignore them because god" Nice way of keeping people staring at the flame and ignoring people who have walked outside the cave.