RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
September 19, 2014 at 2:55 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2014 at 2:59 pm by Simon Moon.)
(September 19, 2014 at 1:07 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: My point was some thing along the lines of believing in a second had account. Even if it wasn't written in the disciples lifetime it was written soon after.
Here's the thing.
You could go interview (first hand) 1000's of living people all over the world, that sincerely believe they were abducted by aliens. There are even multiple people that claim they were abducted together.
These are people alive today. Not second hand, not hearsay from friends and relatives.
Do you believe they were actually abducted by aliens? Or do you think that it might be more likely that they experienced some sort of natural event that they misinterpreted? Or hallucinated?
Why do the Biblical supernatural events become more believable when they are written in ancient texts, decades or more after the alleged events, by superstitious, tribal people, with way less understanding of the universe than we have, with no way to be verified?
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.