(June 14, 2015 at 7:18 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: He did. First for the Jews, and then for the earliest followers of Jesus - both before and after the ascension. And yet, there are still those who refuse to believe.
I have no way of confirming that, and it contradicts everything I understand to be true about the world I currently live in. There are stories just like that for the existence of every other god; why should I privilege yours over theirs?
Quote:Suppose God did another miracle for everyone in this forum, and you all believed. In a hundred years, skeptics like you would deny it.
Yeah, sorry if that seems inconvenient to you, but that's the nature of any claim; sufficient evidence for belief needs to be present in a way that is accessible before it is rational to believe. If we're talking about a long ranging claim, then long ranging proof is required. You're absolutely right, there probably would be people who don't believe in god a few hundred years from now if the only compelling evidence for his existence happened centuries earlier in ways that aren't confirmable, and you know what? They'd be right to do so, because if they don't have access to evidence for the claim, then even if the claim turns out to be true, they have no reason to believe it. Being right by accident is no great feat; being right for good reasons is, and even being wrong for good reasons is worthy of respect.
But then, this is all a moot point anyway, because your god could easily repeat the miracles of the past every few decades to keep up appearances so that people can be rationally justified in believing in him; in fact, if he's timeless then that's no great feat at all. He just won't. Because reasons.
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