RE: Jesus and Miracles
August 16, 2013 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2013 at 11:06 am by FallentoReason.)
Godschild Wrote:Are we going to use the Bible as the evidence, since there is no other place to gather info, or is this a let's just make stuff up type of deal.
I take it your answer is then A, which would be the more plausible out of the two.
Then again, you might believe in the traditional miracle where the supernatural violates nature.
Brian37 Wrote:It never happened.
People don't rise from the dead.
It is a myth people made up.
Your simple technique of just asserting -not p- isn't convincing to the theist. They'll just say p back. Might as well be yelling "YES"... "NO"... "YEEES".... "NOOO".
(August 16, 2013 at 7:32 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(August 16, 2013 at 3:18 am)FallentoReason Wrote: For those of you who believe that miracles are indistinguishable from natural processes (i.e. miracles can be *explained* naturally)
I didn't read past this epic fail.
Why not? I mean:
fr0d0 Wrote:The supernatural never acts naturally. That's not what I'm saying. Supernatural events occur and have to be indistinguishable from natural events, or they couldn't be supernatural. If we can see a process outside nature, that process becomes nature.http://atheistforums.org/thread-20349-po...#pid493082
That's twice now that you've contradicted yourself.
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