(October 21, 2014 at 10:21 pm)Christian Wrote: Let me ask my Atheist friends a similar question. Why do you trust what scientists have to say? I am pretty sure that all of you here are not scientists, or not even mastered a discipline of science.
Now if an astronomer says that the earth is trillions of years old, you believe it? Why? Because you trust him, and not his discovery.
In the same way, we trust the Bible and the word of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When I ask you for the proof that the world is trillion years old, you say its in the book. When you ask us for proof, we also say its in the Book. Get the idea?
Let me make sure I'm understanding this:
Your straight-faced, grown-up answer is that you believe that naked belief in a book of supernatural claims is the same as peer-reviewed experiments with observable and repeatable results?
Did you even read my original post? It looks like you're just responding to the thread title. My points are that, just looking at the source material, large swaths of the Bible are written by people who witnessed events no one else did or by people who claim divine revelation.
How do you know Paul's revelations are legitimate? This goes beyond having faith in God. You have to have faith in a guy who says he has faith in God and started writing letters to other people to tell them about it.
