(July 1, 2022 at 7:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(June 30, 2022 at 8:57 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote: There's no universal standard for evidence.
As for your dream example, in scripture a dream isn't evidence, but a dream that predicts future events with 100% accuracy is. So if Jesus appeared to you in a dream and told you everything that would happen to you in the next week, and it happens, would you not consider that as evidence?
No, I would not consider that as evidence. Here’s why:
If Logar The Lord of Feces came to you in a dream and told you everything that would happen to you next week, and it happens, which is more likely - that Logar exists and you should worship his holy bowels, or that it was all an amazing coincidence?
Boru
Edit: If a Christian were to have the Jesus dream you described, I would be likely to chalk up the subsequent events as a self-fulfilling prophecy (which would make it not a ‘prophecy’ at all).
What we know for a fact (in your example) is that the probability of a coincidence of that magnitude occurring would border on the impossible, what we don't know for a fact, is that Logar doesn't exist.
Therefore is it far more likely that an entity you didn't know existed, exists, than a coincidence of mathematically impossible odds.