For you to stop believing in Christianity? Hear me out on this, as I know you're probably already thinking this is a "trolling" thread, but it isn't. It's intended as a philosophical question regarding the importance of evidence in regards to your belief in Christianity. Seriously...please take the time to read through the OP and consider it as a sincere question. I'll explain...
I've been on this forum for awhile and every few months or so a new christian to the forum decides to pop the same question atheists here have all seem many times over. They want to know what, if anything, would get an atheist to believe in god? The atheists, depending on how tired they are of hearing/answering this question, usually respond with some form of evidence that would get them to reconsider their position on the lack of an existing god. So this got me thinking...why does no one ever really ask the same question of christians?
Granted, it's not the exact same question, since I'm not asking what it would take to get you to stop believing in god. Rather, I'm curious as to what kind of evidence would make you stop believing in christianity? For example...
Say that god appeared before you and some friends one day and proved to you that he was in fact god. Whatever it would take for him to do this...whether it's parting a sea, bringing someone back to life, curing a paraplegic of a spinal injury and making them walk again, telling you every prayer you ever made...exactly as you made it...and whether or not he answered those prayers, showing you that he's able to create life or even a tiny universe from nothing....whatever it would take for him to prove to you that he is, in fact, the one and only god...he does this to prove to you that he's god so that you'll take what he tells you next seriously.
He tells you christianity is wrong...Jesus was just some guy...that pretty much the whole story of the bible is made up and merely a work of fiction. He tells you this because (for whatever reason) he's tired to people living by a made-up story. Then he leaves...not sticking[bless and do not curse]around to answer your numerous questions.
Would you stop believing in christianity? Why or why not? If you wouldn't...does evidence mean nothing to your belief in christianity? (I'm only asking this because whatever evidence "against christianity" you would have after this experience would be more than you had "for christianity")
Also, extra credit if you tell me what god could do to prove to you that he is god.
Actually, the Torah addresses this very scenario in Deuteronomy 13:1-6
1 All this word which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.{P}
2 If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams--and he give thee a sign or a wonder,
3 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee--saying: 'Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them';
4 thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God putteth you to proof, to know whether ye do love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
5 After the LORD your God shall ye walk, and Him shall ye fear, and His commandments shall ye keep, and unto His voice shall ye hearken, and Him shall ye serve, and unto Him shall ye cleave.
6 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken perversion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.{S}
There's just one problem with a new God claimant arising and doing what you said he could to prove he was G-d to me, and then say something that contradicts verse 1 above. Moses' G-d showed up first. He spoke to Moses and millions of people heard. Millions of people saw the miracles of the exodus from Egypt. No other god ever did so before. The G-d of Moses proved himself first before any other.
By right of first dibs in the proof department, He sets the rules for anything that follows. Including instructing us in the verses above that even if a prophet arises and performs miracles, if ever he contradicts verse 1 and speaks of a different god, G-d has already warned us not to believe him, and instead we are to view his existence and power as a test allowed by G-d to see if we will cleave to Him, and not a false god, and thus obey G-d's commands and not follow after a false god. Even if the false prophet performed authentic miracles.
Its the right if first dibs. Any other G-d claimnant has already missed out on proving himself.
If the collective memory of that generation of millions of Jewish people were erased, and no longer transmitted from generation to generation as to this very day, then and only then would there be reason to not believe in the G-d of Moses and to go shopping for an alternative.
