RE: What one thing would disprove Christianity to you?
January 10, 2013 at 2:30 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2013 at 2:40 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
So far in this thread:
It was claimed that Christianity is consistent with reality despite its many wild claims. It asserts the existence of angels, demons, heaven, hell, the soul, sin etc.
Maybe they do exist but why suppose so?
Why believe the Bible is truthful about these things?
If you take the existence of these things on faith, how can you honestly claim the existence of these things is consistent with reality if you don't know they exist? Maybe they don't exist and the Bible is actually inconsistent with reality.
If however you don't take the existence of these things on faith, and instead you actually have some reason to believe these things exist, what is that reason? If someone could provide a reason, I could critique it.
Note that I'm not necessarily asking for empirical proof. If these things exist as non-empirical objects then obviously looking for empirical evidence would be futile. This however raises some new questions. Why suppose it's possible for something to exist as a non-empirical being or thing? And how do you know when something should be defined as either non-empirical or empirical?
If any Christians here could answer the above that would be cool. fr0d0 chickened out and Ryft is missing in action.
It was claimed that Christianity is consistent with reality despite its many wild claims. It asserts the existence of angels, demons, heaven, hell, the soul, sin etc.
Maybe they do exist but why suppose so?
Why believe the Bible is truthful about these things?
If you take the existence of these things on faith, how can you honestly claim the existence of these things is consistent with reality if you don't know they exist? Maybe they don't exist and the Bible is actually inconsistent with reality.
If however you don't take the existence of these things on faith, and instead you actually have some reason to believe these things exist, what is that reason? If someone could provide a reason, I could critique it.
Note that I'm not necessarily asking for empirical proof. If these things exist as non-empirical objects then obviously looking for empirical evidence would be futile. This however raises some new questions. Why suppose it's possible for something to exist as a non-empirical being or thing? And how do you know when something should be defined as either non-empirical or empirical?
If any Christians here could answer the above that would be cool. fr0d0 chickened out and Ryft is missing in action.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
