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Before We Discuss Whether God Exists, I Have A Question
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RE: Before We Discuss Whether God Exists, I Have A Question
(March 6, 2018 at 3:05 pm)SteveII Wrote:
(March 6, 2018 at 2:30 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: If the god you believe in, interacts with the natural world (performing miracles, healing people, etc) then in fact, there is something to test.

Most of the Christians I know, claim to have a 'personal relationship with God/Jesus'. They are claiming to be "God detectors". That is a testable claim.

If they claim that god heals people, that is also a testable claim.

I'm not sure that's true.

All you could test for was a known naturalistic cause. Absent that, most atheists will just claim miracles have unknown naturalistic causes. 

Most atheists deny the personal experiences of Christians as some sort of delusion/misrepresentation/misunderstanding/confusion. There is nothing to 'test' because the other side of the equation is supernatural and as a result, cannot be detected in a lab.
Of course we're going to deny your unevidenced & unvarifiable assertions Steve. You "personal experiences" have as much credibility as me saying on the stand that I witnessed a murder in Aurora, Ilinois, after it was proven I was in work in Clonmel, Tipperary at the time of the incident.
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