(February 23, 2014 at 9:30 am)discipulus Wrote: But what arguments, what supporting evidence have you given to show that premise one is even true? You have an enormously huge burden to bear in showing that to be more plausibly true than its denial. What argument do you have that can demonstrate that in order for the Bible to be the Word of God it MUST focus on the entire planet? It seems to me in order for you to answer this you would have to reason that it is inconsistent with the nature of God to not mention other nations or other people groups. But how is this inconsistent with God's nature? Not only that but this assumes that He ignores everyone else except the Israelites, and we know this simply is not true if one has actually read the entire bible.
The problem is that the ONLY evidence you have is the Bible itself. There has been no evidence found in the rest of the planet that Yahweh revealed himself to anyone. You can speculate about God's nature all you want but at the end of the day we still need actual empirical evidence. Is it just a coincidence that God acts so mysteriously it is as if he doesn't exist at all?
