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Okay. And if the streets were made of custard, we'd all have to wear gumboots to work.If there are in fact multiple dimensions/universes, you might find some of that stuff spread over them, providing there are an infinite number of alternatives and the same basic rules of human reality don't apply in at least some of them.
Imagine that there is something like Project Blue Book to investigate claims of miracles rather than UFOs. So when somebody claims a miracle from God the FBI might interview witnesses, gather physical specimens, and finally write a report for the files. Let's say a few of the claims cannot be explained - even by the swamp gas hypothesis. Would that make you curious about the possibility that God exists?Can you present evidence of His existence?
The amazing thing is that this isn't happening already, that Christians themselves aren't taking the steps themselves to find the truth so they can trumpet it all over the world. But of course Christians already know the truth - that miracles work so much better when they're stories you read about from decades of centuries ago, or that you hear of from a friend of a friend. Best not too dig too deeply, in case it turns out there's nothing there to find.Imagine that there is something like Project Blue Book to investigate claims of miracles rather than UFOs. So when somebody claims a miracle from God the FBI might interview witnesses, gather physical specimens, and finally write a report for the files. Let's say a few of the claims cannot be explained - even by the swamp gas hypothesis. Would that make you curious about the possibility that God exists?
The amazing thing is that this isn't happening already, that Christians themselves aren't taking the steps themselves to find the truth so they can trumpet it all over the world. But if course Christians already know the truth - that miracles work so much better when they're stories you read about from decades of centuries ago, or that you hear of from a friend of a friend. Best not too dig too deeply, in case it turns out there's nothing there to find.
the things which you would expect to be readily available if God were real.
Okay. And if the streets were made of custard, we'd all have to wear gumboots to work.
Not at all. But I get that you have to say this. Since you lack anything you back up your own beliefs, you have to pretend that it's the fault of other people, for not thinking like you.The point being that underlying your questions is the mistaken notion that ‘proof’ of god would somehow involve something that would arise out of your own way of thinking to challenge it.
Oh, I'm sorry. Is God not a three-in-one entity, an immortal, immaterial, omnipotent entity who created heaven and earth? Am I thinking of someone else?The things you would expect if your idea of who god is bore some relation to the question.
Not at all. But I get that you have to say this. Since you lack anything you back up your own beliefs, you have to pretend that it's the fault of other people, for not thinking like you.
That is exactly the kind of word salad you'd expect from someone who believes in something for no good reason.With these threads you are simply rehashing ideas that weren’t new millennia ago. The bible is a far more sophisticated text that people generally credit it to be - it juxtaposes these kind of basic materialist notions with other realities of consciousness, experience and knowing. That there is a split between them is nothing new; the materialist constructs a way of thinking that is coherent and consistent within itself, and comes to believe that this has some externally objective validity in some overarching sense, and hence demands that everything should align with this way of thinking, and that anything outside of it must be rejected. You can’t convince someone who believes only in square boxes by showing them a round one, they’ll only insist that you make it square so that they can ‘see’ it.
Again, you're projecting. It's you who thinks things are true because you believe them.Spoken like a true believer! The definition of blind faith - believing things to be true because you think them.
Oh, I'm sorry. Is God not a three-in-one entity, an immortal, immaterial, omnipotent entity who created heaven and earth? Am I thinking of someone else?
Again, you're projecting. It's you who thinks things are true because you believe them.
Prove me wrong if you like, and address the OP - if you are able.
As expected, still not a scrap of proof that whatever you mean when you talk about "God" exists.You’re thinking of something you made yourself to fit in with your under-developed worldview, based on a few basic impressions.
Projecting again.Lol how can you be proved wrong? Your way of thinking is more or less consistent, you can make anything you like fit into it, provided you just stick to basic details. Your demand for proof doesn’t make sense outside of your own head.
Put your money where your mouth is, why don't you?
Distraction again. All to try to avoid having to say the truth:Like what, perform a miracle? Come on, you have to realise at some point how silly these questions are.
That's exactly the type of thing I'd say, if I were writing a book filled with miracle stories and wanted to avoid someone asking for proof that they actually happened.But he replied, ‘If they won’t listen to Moshe and the Prophets, they won’t be convinced even if someone rises from the dead!’””
No, you give it some thought.Give it some thought. There is nothing new about materialism, and, objectively, there is no more reason to believe in it now than there ever was. It’s not a reliable guide to anything more than itself. You’d need more than a few exchanges on the internet to really understand that however.
Distraction again. All to try to avoid having to say the truth:
"No, we Christians have no evidence of God's existence at all."
That's exactly the type of thing I'd say, if I were writing a book filled with miracle stories and wanted to avoid someone asking for proof that they actually happened.
No, you give it some thought.
You claim that God exists, but you have no evidence that your claim is true. Why should anyone believe you?
Can you say this?
"We Christians have no evidence of God's existence at all."
Everything.Certainly, there is nothing I’m aware of that would fit your definition of evidence, but what does that have to do with anything?
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