RE: Why do you believe?
December 9, 2012 at 10:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2012 at 10:28 pm by median.)
(December 9, 2012 at 2:58 am)FutureAndAHope Wrote: 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:...
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.
So basically, (as I suspected) all you're saying is that (for you) a miracle (or a supernatural occurrence) is just a highly improbable event. Is that correct?
You do know that there are numerous counter-examples to your rare occurrences, don't you? These claims are not consistent. Have you ever thought about talking to Christians who did the same thing (or something very similar) and got negative results? Why is it that you assumed the bible was the word of God? You do know that Muslims say this kind of thing as well, don't you?
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