What if Jesus had failed?

[Tonus]

I'd say Christians have a little bit more evidence to go on if anything, something is better than nothing at all.

But that would require that you believe in pretty much any creature or concept that has some evidence, because evidence that it does not exist is not available. Think of any mythical creature from past or present, and there will be some evidence of it. Stories, legends, histories, scholarly studies, pictures, paintings, footprints, even eyewitness accounts. There will be no evidence that these creatures do NOT exist.

Therefore you are forced to believe in dragons, and griffins, and unicorns, and bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster and green men from Mars in their saucer-shaped spaceships and any number of other beings for whom there is a little bit more evidence for than against.

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When you start thinking out of the box, all sorts of questions arise.

Well, yeah. That is how I started this particular topic. I got to wondering, and decided to ask the question. I'm glad that at least a couple of theists have stepped up and made a selection and explained it, thank you.

As for deciphering god's mind, we're humans, it's what we do. We want to know how things work. For believers, they should want to know how god thinks, even if it seems impossible. He did provide you with his thoughts and deeds on paper, so there is material to work with. The alternative would be to not want to know how he thinks, and that seems creepy to me.