Someone pointed out that (rampant) hypocrisy among Christians does not disprove Christianity as a whole. This is a valid point but it begs the question, what WOULD disprove Christianity (if only hypothetically) ?
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What WOULD disprove Christianity?
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Disproof in the realm of religion is subjective. Someone who disbelieves can cite why they disbelieve, in other words provide the disproof of the religion from an individual perspective, and a believer can either explain why they believe they are wrong or interprets the disproof as actually being a proof.
I do not believe an objective disproof exists, at least not right now. When we die, that is a different story.
I do not believe an objective disproof exists, at least not right now. When we die, that is a different story.
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ebia
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(In principle) if you could prove that Jesus of Nazareth did not physically rise from the dead on Easter morning. Christianity hinges on that as an historical event - remove that hinge and the whole door falls on the floor.
How one could do that in practice is another matter.
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There are at least two groups that claim to have found Jesus' tomb. One claims it is the center altar of a LARGE church and the other claims it's in a cave with early Christian insignias and Jesus' name on the actual tomb. Without anyway to confirm it's the body of Jesus and not just someone with the same name in the same time and place Christianity is left without any kind of objectivity. Is there any other way to disprove Christianity that does not hinge on Jesus' resurrection?
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Not really - Christianity hinges on an historical event. Either Jesus rose from the dead or he didn't. The conclusions one draws from observations about what's happening now will be dependent on the framework one is working in.
Jesus resurrection is, in principle, disprovable. The difficulty in practice is kind of your problem. Christianity is unusual amongst religions in having anything that is even in principle disprovable on which it relies.
Christianity's central claim is: Jesus rose and is therefore Lord. The rest either follows because that is true, or falls because it is not. If one wants to deal in "proving" or "disproving" Christianity it is to history one must go because it is in history that one finds the central Christian claim.
Jesus resurrection is, in principle, disprovable. The difficulty in practice is kind of your problem. Christianity is unusual amongst religions in having anything that is even in principle disprovable on which it relies.
Christianity's central claim is: Jesus rose and is therefore Lord. The rest either follows because that is true, or falls because it is not. If one wants to deal in "proving" or "disproving" Christianity it is to history one must go because it is in history that one finds the central Christian claim.
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How can you prove the sun does not shine?
I guess you can fool someone by raising them from birth in a cave.
I guess you can fool someone by raising them from birth in a cave.
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MY DEAR FRIEND--The only thing that could possibly disprove Christianity is if it were proven somehow that our Lord did not experience Resurrection on Easter Morning.
However, given that our Lord did, in fact, "trample down death by death" and rise in triumph, such proof is manifestly impossible to obtain and thus Christianity impossible to disprove.
A BOND-SLAVE/FRIEND/BROTHER OF OUR LORD/GOD/SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
ephraim
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Why does Christianity need to be disproven?
(I am so foreign to this kind of thing)
It doesn't need to be but I am asking if it CAN be. In theory is can but in practice it can't really because there is no way to confirm Jesus' body. I remember the group that found the cave ran a probability check and found that it has a high probability of being Jesus' body but that isn't enough. Of course proving a negative will always be harder then proving a positive.
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Nothing can and nothing will. This is a train that won't and can't be stopped! Its supernatural. Unchristian humans have been trying for thousands of years to disprove this and they continually have a grand failure over and over and over and over again. This is like asking what will it take for me to turn into a cow.
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I wouldn't really say anyone has been trying. After all, have YOU been trying to disprove the claims of Scientology?
Eat a lot of cheesecake and I'm sure someone while eventually call you a cow.
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Hi Dp,
There is outstanding prophecies concerning Israel in the Word of God. A nuclear strike or Arab onslaught that destroyed the nation completely would make the Word of no effect.
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