(March 9, 2019 at 2:19 am)Godscreated Wrote:(March 8, 2019 at 10:41 am)Jehanne Wrote: Okay, you choose to believe in some miracle accounts while finding rational reasons to disbelieve in other accounts. I find your "reasoning" to be circular -- "Well, Christianity is true, because Christianity is true," a type of question-begging, or, assuming the conclusion. You have yet to provide me with a single reason why I should take any Christian belief seriously, and so, at this point, I am going to stop asking.
What does me choosing to believe in the miracles of the Bible and being skeptical of those outside the Bible have anything to do with Christianity, you are making no sense at all and you're playing the circle game of reasoning to dispute anything I say. What you want to believe and what you should believe are up to you, I'm only answering questions you present and so far you haven't disproven any answers. When a miracle occurs it will have no rational explanation as the Fatima does, nor will there be any confusion about the miracle as with the Fatima. I have never expected an atheist would take any Christian belief seriously if you did then you wouldn't be an atheist. Christians do not have a hoard of beliefs, the essentials are few God intended it to be that way. My conclusion about this discussion is this, you are trying to assure yourself that Christianity has nothing for you, it does regardless of how you rationalize things.
GC
I think that you are being inconsistent, say, for accepting the miracle accounts of Jesus in the Gospels, while at the same time disregarding the miraculous accounts of Jesus, say, in the Gospel of Peter, or the miracles of Apollonius of Tyana, etc, etc, etc.
