Evidence for god? Convince me! [CHALLENGE]

[Jacob(smooth)]

Nah, I have a cold I don't want to give you . We could talk though.

Superstition : excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural.

So your position is that believing in God based on spirituality is excessively credulous, but believing it based on other people's reports of spirituality from 2000 years ago is not?

If that's the case, Unwrap it for me. I don't understand.

lol

Superstition: unfounded belief resulting in irrational behaviours

Explain "excessively credulous belief in and reverence for the supernatural"

That was the google definition of superstition. Can't really explain it pe se.

I don't trust feelings or coincidences to inform anything. I'm incredibly skeptical and need to understand reason behind everything. People fascinate me.

I had to be more than convinced in the biblical evidence to believe. Those ideas were cemented once belief was entered into. They apply directly to the present, and can be verified in the same way. But you knew that.

I have always been suspicious of a spiritual reality. I appear to have dreams of things that then happen in the future. 5 second snippets of scenes I'll later live through. Nothing I've ever been able to use. I've never linked that to my faith.

Here's what I don't understand. If you read an article in "christianity today" or insert name of religious writing here journal, which told of a miracle, you'd be skeptical right? You'd quite rightly question whether it was legit, or merely propaganda to support the agenda of the author. Or even if the people writing it were merely mistaken, caught up in religious fervor. It happens.

In which case, what led you to believe that the bible is true, not merely in part, but in full (assuming that's what you believe).

It seems to me that you are applying laudibly stringent levels of skepticism to your own experience, whilst being much happier to accept the experience of those with less education, less credulity, about whom we have at best handed down reports, from 2000 years ago!!

For eg. Do you believe in the biblical account of pentecost? Of speaking in tongues etc? And do you believe that what goes on in pentacostal churches today is equally legit? And if not, why not?