(October 27, 2014 at 6:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 27, 2014 at 5:53 pm)trmof Wrote: I may have already asked you before in another thread, but what would God have to do to prove to you that he exists? How high is your bar set.
No, they are not. You don't get to define the characteristics of a supposedly fictional character that you did not create, just as you are not able to decide that Harry Potter is a purple giraffe without people correcting you.
You did ask, and I answered you. Yes, the bar is set pretty high (higher, at least, than the set of increasingly coincidental occurrences you referred to in your video): If people told me that they were going to pray to a particular god to re-grow my left eye and have it fully functional, and it happened, I would believe in that god. I had high hopes for Odin, but that came a cropper as well.
The difference between Allah and Jehovah is not a definitional one, but a semantic one. Bibles printed in Arabic us 'Allah' as a transliteration of 'God'. Both names refer to the God of Abraham (this is why the Big Three are called 'The Abrahamic Religions'). Differences between Allah and YHWH seem to be restricted to differences in worship and interpretation, and the case can be made that they aren't a lot greater than the differences between Catholicism and some of the more sedate Protestant franchises.
Boru
This is what most Muslims believe, it is not what most Christians believe. I am a Christian, and we are using my definition of God. If you'd like to use another that's fine, just as long as you note the difference.
