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Not much. Does nothing to support the fantastic claims of christianity.
Pick one of the seven, and we'll discuss.
Oh really?
Well those 7 do move you from non-theism to theism. From there I would provide lines of evidence for Christianity specifically by pointing you to his work on the resurrection, evidence which meets the criteria you provided in that it is not an appeal to personal religious experience.
The Resurrection of Jesus | Reasonable Faith
I´m looking forward to finding out if there´s a point pertinent to the topic at hand in you pointing out the ineviteble. Like, for example, whether you are going to suggest an alternative epistemology that doesn´t depend on senses and brain processing.You have to use your senses to do that though.
He seems to be under the impression that seven poor argument combined make a good case.They are your arguments, pick one.
My favorite argument is not on the website I linked.I don't care. You pick what you think is the strongest.
Well I have good news for you!
All you have to do is go to www.reasonablefaith.org and there you will find 7 different lines of independent evidence for Christianity. None of these 7 pieces of evidence consist of an appeal to personal religious experiences! The article in which you will find these was actually published in Philosophy Now (Nov./Dec. 2013)
Does God Exist? | Reasonable Faith
Oh really?
Well those 7 do move you from non-theism to theism. From there I would provide lines of evidence for Christianity specifically by pointing you to his work on the resurrection, evidence which meets the criteria you provided in that it is not an appeal to personal religious experience.
The Resurrection of Jesus | Reasonable Faith
I like them all. Which one do you find more persuasive?
That´s what you started with a couple of pages ago. When the problems of this argument were shown, you changed your tune and brought up some of those seven arguments, and now we are back full circle.My favorite argument is not on the website I linked.
My favorite argument is just simply appealing to Jesus. The Jesus we see in the New Testament is just out of this world!
Why would that lead you to accept theism?
They did not lead me to theism. I did not become a follower of Christ because I read some arguments for theism.
However, when I said that they were enough to move someone from atheism to theism, I meant that the arguments contained conclusions which support theism.
So, you concluded that theism is correct in spite of the arguments, but you think the arguments are good enough for atheists? And when pressed, you claim that the existence of Jesus is your most compelling. Unfortunately, there are zero contemporary accounts of Jesus biblical or extrabiblical. What we do know about Jesus, are from copies of copies from anonymous authors, written in a language Jesus never spoke, in third person narrative, and from countries Jesus never visited. Everything you know of Jesus is, essentially, hearsay.They did not lead me to theism. I did not become a follower of Christ because I read some arguments for theism.
However, when I said that they were enough to move someone from atheism to theism, I meant that the arguments contained conclusions which support theism.
They did not lead me to theism. I did not become a follower of Christ because I read some arguments for theism.
However, when I said that they were enough to move someone from atheism to theism, I meant that the arguments contained conclusions which support theism.
Sure, the conclusions support that. However, those conclusions are based on flawed logic and a lack of evidence.
As such, why accept the arguments?
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