(May 8, 2014 at 11:41 am)Cinjin Wrote: This really sums it up doesn't it? The blinders, the ignorance, the wanton disregard of any kind of reason or logic - all summed up in this sentence:
(April 29, 2014 at 9:37 pm)te1148 Wrote: It is circular reasoning, and I'm okay with that. I believe the Bible to be true, because I believe God to be true.
It makes you wanna cry don't it?
Anyway with regard to the main issue of what would be required for me to believe: In a nut shell the evidence would be a similar standard as that applied in criminal law. Beyond reasonable doubt.
Having aaid that I do recognise that there some inherent problems in this type issue. If a god appeared before your eyes, you still wouldn't be able to believe. This is because it could've been an alien with technology that we can't fathom that read our scriptures and knows what we'd be looking for. It also could be a malevolent demon acting as the god being sought. The demon would also know how to counterfeit the authentication process required just like the alien. Asking for miracles to be performed is also useless because it could just be really good technology.
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."
