(October 26, 2009 at 2:38 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I know because I don't go around denying God exists. I am open (more so than most on this forum I suspect) to the idea of God. I used to believe one existed; I don't now. That might be what I believe for the rest of my life, it might not. If I saw any reason to believe in God, I would do so. I'm a rational person.
The point still stands though, that unverifiable examples of "miracles" are not going to persuade anyone other than believers. Unless it happens to me, I can't say anything about it. I have no way of distinguishing it from fantasy.
Just because you don't go around denying God exists does not mean that your presuppositions cannot keep you from the truth. If your presuppositions say that science and/or logic is the measure of everything (the standard used for measuring everything), then it seems to me you have presupposed that the God of the Bible does not exist for how can the God of the Bible be proven scientifically and/or logically (possibly by the TAG but presumably you have already considered this and rejected it)? If I say Jesus is God, he came to earth, lived a perfect life, died for our sins, and rose from the dead as the proof that He is God, it seems to me that your presuppositions would not allow you to accept this as it is not provable scientifically as it happened in the past and any logical proof you would merely explain away (the witnesses were lying, delusional, so what if they were willing to die for it). So it seems to me that if God exists, you would never know it because of your presuppositions.
