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Typically skeptics demand that Christians show evidence for belief, but I wonder if it would be possible for skeptics to show evidence for disbelief
The gospel writers are presenting a scenario that is difficult to disprove. Let's assume the best position, that a one time event of the coming Messiah (anointed one) occurs. For the sake of covenience, we'll call him the "Son of God" (SOG). What limits entail if the SOG appears?
There is a tacit assumption used in the historical critical method. We can call it the princinple of like-experience. The assumption goes: the days of Jesus were just like our days, same physics, same everything. Do I see people walking on water? No, I do not. So, by the principle of like-experience, neither did folks in Jesus's day.
That all makes sense, so long as we assume Jesus was not that one-time event of the Messiah. So long as we assume Jesus was not SOG, we can handily discount his supposed walking on water. But, why should I assume that?
If I were walking around every day with the one-time event of the Chosen One, what would I see? In other words, what the atheist has to disprove is that Jesus was the Christ! Lol Good luck with that! Naysayers.
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