(January 30, 2015 at 2:20 pm)SteveII Wrote: Perhaps you are struggling with the term "Bible". There are five written documents (gospels+acts). I chose to believe these accounts because they are describing actual events--not because they claim any special consideration (like inspiration) -- because they don't.
There are hundreds of Spiderman comics; can I imbue the claim that Spiderman is real with more significance by choosing to count them all individually, rather than as the single narrative set they actually are? There are hundreds of them! That makes the probability of Spiderman existing far higher than your god, and his piffling five accounts!
Besides, "I chose to believe these accounts because they are describing actual events"? There you go again, "I believe the bible because the bible is true." You're just assuming they present real events to you because they claim to be doing so, but you have no evidence that that's true... beyond other accounts in the same narrative... oh.

Look at how curved that circle is!
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