@PR- Once again going to the physical evidence required to faith. That leads no where. I've never read Erhman, I''ll put it on my list. Of course the evidence is subjective, it's immaterial and unmeasurable within the current model of the universe. I'm not sure if you specifically have, but atheists in general cherry pick only personifications (and usually only the bad ones) not objective identifiers for God. The only one's I'm aware of are the one's I've stated above.Why bother with the Bible? Because if I was an archaeologist I'd not only be studying the things I'd found, but placing them contextually in history with documentation and study.
@Caecilian- You would draw no correlation that the synchronicity of the event of you basically asking for a sign from God , then receiving a spontaneous LSD-like flash are related? Maybe I could see getting an MRI and seeing the doctor to verify if they continue, but I think that's denial.
And what would you conclude if doctors and psychiatrists found absolutely nothing wrong with you? You'd probably still deny God had anything to do with anything because it's incompatible with your materialistic view, instead of accepting that your view could be wrong and maybe he did provide you with what you asked for.
As far as God and morality-The problem with your emotive hate parade is that the first two actually did the events themselves, the third at the most inspired them. What If I have 500 people say that you've inspired them to slaughter all of their own children , because I've told them you have some superhero powers. It turns out your superpowers are completely explainable and you didn't even want them to do what I told them you wanted. What culpability would you actually have in that scenario?
@Caecilian- You would draw no correlation that the synchronicity of the event of you basically asking for a sign from God , then receiving a spontaneous LSD-like flash are related? Maybe I could see getting an MRI and seeing the doctor to verify if they continue, but I think that's denial.
And what would you conclude if doctors and psychiatrists found absolutely nothing wrong with you? You'd probably still deny God had anything to do with anything because it's incompatible with your materialistic view, instead of accepting that your view could be wrong and maybe he did provide you with what you asked for.
As far as God and morality-The problem with your emotive hate parade is that the first two actually did the events themselves, the third at the most inspired them. What If I have 500 people say that you've inspired them to slaughter all of their own children , because I've told them you have some superhero powers. It turns out your superpowers are completely explainable and you didn't even want them to do what I told them you wanted. What culpability would you actually have in that scenario?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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