RE: The Bible is the claim, not the evidence
December 11, 2013 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2013 at 4:29 pm by Simon Moon.)
(December 11, 2013 at 1:43 pm)Drich Wrote: If the bible 'claims' that if you do A, B, C and you will find 'X' the finding of 'X' (for over 2000 years) is then proof the bible is accurate.
If one were to closly follow the A, B, C, instructions and find nothing then the bible would have been discarded long before now.
Except when one does try the A, B, C instructions, and it doesn't lead to X, Christians will invariably claim, "You weren't sincere", or "you have to keep trying until it does" or, some other convenient excuse.
It is almost as if your god appears to be nonexistent.
What's really insincere about these alleged instructions, is that there have been many Christians (starting with Paul) that did not need to use these instruction to 'find god'. 'God' has found people all on his own.
Why don't I deserve to have a 'road to Damascus' experience?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
