Recent content by Gumph

Newspaper?

His personal appearance (repeatedly) - preferably not in human form? A direct personal conversation (regularly) ?

I have no problem with that, but which intelligence? I firmly believe he needs to do better than a book. As part of a package it would be ok I suppose, but on its own ... no that concerns me greatly.

Baird has a point, but I disagree with him saying it is inadmissible. It merely needs additional evidence. Witnessing something as grand as a resurrection with our senses is not sufficient evidence. Otherwise we must believe that David Copperfield can fly and make airplanes vanish. It is a...

I think thats a bit of an unreasonable request, considering the time and effort that would require. In addition, in the interest of completeness I would have to do the same with the original languages of all the main religions. It starts getting a bit ridiculous. But I will still be relying on...

How does finding a community with love, joy and peace indicate their God is the one? These communities can be found in all types all over the world. Usually small rural communities. Does finding a community with hate, sadness and war indicate that their God is the wrong one?

My humble apologies. That was a horrible typo. Yes I did indeed mean "now" I find the prophecy angle very unconvincing. Its horribly vague and allows for multiple outcomes to support the prophecy. They speak in sevens. You have chosen to interpret that as years. Would it not be logical to...

I certainly do not if they make grand and unusual claims. I might if they are common and trivial (as per my earlier post explanation). I don't treat the claims of believers and non-believers and differently. You are providing more and more "evidence" of the type that I already consider...

I'm not sure you need to go to the trouble of arguing for a Theistic universe. Its a solution I would be quite comfortable with. The big problem is determining which god. Would it not be reasonable for God to expect some skepticism? Otherwise we would simply worship any God mentioned to us. In...

How would visiting a Christian community indicate if there is a God? What am I likely to experience there? Why is this opportunity not available to everyone around the world?

Well, its not only me. There are apparently 5 billion other folk on this planet who are not convinced either and I also suspect that many of the 2 billion or so who claim they do believe, only say so to prevent peer ridicule. Looking at this detectives views is going to achieve absolutely...

I have had to give this some thought because these sort of examples keep coming up - and I must add that I think yours were really good ones. For convenience and practical reasons, we will accept the word of people for a host of minor interactions on any particular day. When deciding which ones...

{The above refers to him using humans so spread his ideas} I am surprised because it is a highly ineffective and error prone way to accurately record messages. His long history of using this method, and only this method is indeed of great concern to me. There appears to be several variations...

Thank you all for your answers. They were good to hear and a bit of a relief as I had been accused in another thread of not praying hard enough. I was worried I had not done it properly, however this does not seem to be the case.

Now by prayer, I mean the well known traditional means of kneeling, clasping hands, closing eyes and speaking to God - or something similar. Why can we not speak like in a conversation? Why can we not converse using our thoughts? What is the reason behind this ritual and why does he ignore us...