(December 31, 2011 at 1:23 am)Voltair Wrote: If this were simply a matter of secular history I would agree with you that the lack of corroboration is not surprising. What we are talking about here though are supernatural events. In our day and time and even in recent history there has been no proof that supernatural/miracle events can happen besides some attributions.
So when a document is claiming that something happened that seems to not exist in reality it is going to raise red flags. If Christianity is truly guided by the divine creator of the universe than it should not be too much for him to provide an easier way to see that the Bible is true. A divine hand in it should make it a lot less difficult unless that divine hand is intentionally trying to make things difficult.
God is not trying to make salvation hard, actually He has made it a lot easier. Before Christ most gentiles had no idea of what God was about, and the Israelites were having to sacrifice animals all the time to cover their sins because, they could not come close to living up to the Law of Moses. Now faith in Christ and accepting who He is and what did for us will bring the grace of God and His salvation. I'm not trying to preach here just trying to show that things were made easier.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
