(July 31, 2014 at 9:36 am)SteveII Wrote: No one suggested an eyewitness wrote the gospels. That does not prove
You do know that you can actually got talk to 1000's of people from all over the world that claim they were abducted by aliens, right? Even multiple people to the same event.
These are direct eyewitnesses, not people writing it down a few decades later. Most of them report pretty similar experiences.
Do you believe them? Do you believe they are actually relaying accurate experiences?
Why does it become more credible to you if the story is in an ancient book written by people that knew a lot less about the world than we do?
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.
