Christian Paradox

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I don't believe anything without a basis of evidence. Most atheists aren't willing to allow all types of evidence into consideration, and rightly so. Where would science be today without such high standards of evidence? God isn't science though, I believe there are things outside the explination of science, outside the tangible, and it's evident to me. I'm grateful for all of scientific studies and pursuits and agree that elimination of variables and faith is a detriment to that pursuit. Variables and faith are however very relevant to reality, as is subjective perspective.

I don't claim to know why God wouldn't present himself as evidence, I would if I were God. However my perception is within the confines of the laws of nature and his isn't. Perhaps our existance is but a fleeting second of fiery self-destruction from his POV, similar to a firework. Perhaps if we focus on him he takes the time to focus on us, putting him in sink with our spacetime allowing him to work miracles in our day-to-day lives. Our perception works that way, what we focus our will on is what consciously manipulate. After Jesus we have subjective verifiability in the holy spirit.

I'm sure someone born that time was named Jesus, I'm sure there were lots of people born that time with lots of different names. That's the problem with a literalist and scientific realist approach. I don't worship a man named Jesus. I worship God, I know about some aspects of God and can recieve redemption through the Son of God. I don't care if the Son of God was named Jesus, Yeshuda or dwight. They may have just slapped a name on the most controversial speaker of the time, but the deeds of the Son of God answer the prophesies of the OT and we'll never know if it was him till he comes back. I think that answers all of your questions from above.