(September 20, 2013 at 4:30 pm)Rationalman Wrote:(September 20, 2013 at 4:15 pm)Godschild Wrote: You've said you're good and have supplied no demonstrable evidence, so do we believe you or wait for your absolute proof.
GC
You would have a point except that it is not an extraordinary claim for a person to say they are good. Evidence is not really necessary for claims that you can believe off hand. A deity on the other hand is an extraordinary claim, and so requires extraordinary evidence. In fact, god needs even more extraordinary evidence for the claim that he is good since there is quite a lot of evidence that contradicts that claim.
I did not ask for extraordinary evidence and didn't say it was an extraordinary claim, however it still needs demonstrable evidence to be proven true. How else will we know he is good or not.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
