(February 28, 2014 at 10:40 am)discipulus Wrote: You fail to take into account the background information accompanying the accounts of Christ's miracles.How many people did follow him around while he was doing all those things?
Christ did not do one miracle and then say believe in Me. He did not do two miracles and say believe in Me. Or three or four.
If I were a Jew living at that time and witnessed what Jesus was doing I could not justify not believing who He said He was.
With each miracle, the probability of it all happening via some naturalisitc explanation diminishes. Assuming the accounts are true it is more probable that the explanation for these occurrances is that Christ was actually who He said He was.
Wanting evidence for claims of divinity is not wrong. It is right. But denying what is obvious is a matter of the will.
Do you agree?
Which of those recorded what was witnessed?
(February 28, 2014 at 10:40 am)discipulus Wrote:(February 28, 2014 at 7:05 am)pocaracas Wrote: If you were among the crowd that witnessed David Copperfield misplace the Statue of Liberty, while claiming it to be magic, would you believe him?
Of course the "do it again" request would lead to investigation of how this ability works and into a possible replication of it through technology!
Would it be proof of the claim?... errr... perhaps...
But we must keep the real world and the fictional world in their proper realms... has anyone ever performed such a raising of people from death?
Has David Copperfield ever actually moved the statue of liberty? No
Even if He were able, he still has not claimed to be God in the flesh.
As I have stated, Christ and David Copperfield have very little in common.
Assuming for the sake of argument Christ did all it is recorded He did, it seems more probable that the best explanation is that He actually was who He said He was as opposed to Him being some sort of magician.
I am aware of no magician who has been tortured and killed because they claimed to be the Son of God and whose mighty deeds had been prophesied years prior to Him being born.
What if he claimed it to be a god-given power?
And you saw it and thought for sure that the statue had been moved?
Or try the indian levitating by mastering the Hindu way of life?
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