(September 19, 2012 at 6:21 am)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: So if we want to look into, "what if he is who he says he is," the question arrises, "What did he come here for?"You failed to present the other side... but I'm sure you were counting on atheists to go there.
The "what if he isn't who the book claims him to be"?
Atheists just see this position as the default: People are people, not gods; regardless of what they claim.
We then allow for the claim, if enough proof is provided. Apparently, the people who wrote the book thought proof was necessary too, so they provided: healing, walking on water, resurrection and all round teaching how to behave.
How can we tell if what these people wrote really did happen?
We can't. So we go to the default position: people are people and not gods. People can't heal others just by touching them, people can't walk on water, people can't resurrect.
There is a time in a person's life, when the default position is not that. It's: whatever the grownups say is true.
And that's when you plant the seeds of moving away from the reasonable/mundane/real(?)/most accurate/best/experience based/secular/atheistic default position.
