Why do you believe?

[pocaracas]

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So the question I have for you is this, how do you tell the difference between an event that is natural (or coincidence) and an event that is supernatural?

Hi,

Well if I look at my experiences from a scientific perspective, I won't do the maths but you are welcome too. If you read my website you would have seen that I randomly open my bible to get verses from God to give me guidence. As an example read the following story off my site:

On the 10 of October 2012 the LORD prevented us from making a bad financial decision. Me and my wife had found a house that we thought could be a good investment for our future. But our pastor prayed about it and felt that it was not going to be a good investment. So I prayed that if it was not a good investment God would get the bible to open randomly to James 4:13-15, otherwise the bible would open to the verse in Mal 3:10 about God blessing our finances.

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I opened my bible on the computer and moved my hand quickly and randomly, first selecting a book of the bible, then a verse, all without looking where I was choosing, and it opened to James 4:13-15 so I knew that God did not want us to go ahead.

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Jas 4:13-15 “Some of you say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to some city. We will stay there a year, do business, and make money." Listen, think about this: You don't know what will happen tomorrow. Your life is like a fog. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away. So you should say, "If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that."

So with one try, the bible randomly opened to the very verse I asked God about. That is a 1/54248 chance. Even if this happened once it would be quite amazing a 0.0000184338593127857248193481787347 chance, but it has happened multiple times 5 times recorded on my website. that is a random possibility of 0.0000000000000000000000000000039237164186164436897300633262929

Also just with the general miracles I listed about the guy being stabbed. That has a high improbability, yet it has happened in a similar way more than once.

If I am to follow scientific method in my life, I must believe it is probable given my stories are true that God is 99.999999999999999999999999999997% likely to exist. As I know what I have experienced is true I would be a fool to not believe.

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Oh yeah.... you picked the book, and verse quickly and ended up where you wanted...
What are the odds of that?
You start with two candidate verses, then make some random mouse clicks that land you on one of them... and then calculate the odds of that as 1/54248... Am I missing something?