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Yes, scientific journals which document the occurrences you cited.Are you looking for scientific work that attempts to verify the biblical accounts?What reputable scientific journals document these occurrences as real?
Please don't answer my question with a question. Please answer my question first and then ask your question. Why would the deliverance of one country from another country constitute evidence of a supreme being?Have you ever read the Exodus account?Why would the deliverance of one country from another country constitute evidence of a supreme being?
How do you know that what appeared really was a god?It's far from the only time that God has appeared. It's just a pretty famous one.If 1500BC at Mt. Sinai was the only time God appeared, then how do you account for all these other instances of people claiming God appeared to them?
Why would God want to be detectable to only those who aren't skeptical? Isn't it the skeptical who need to be convinced?
Does the god you believe in manifest itself in reality? If so, what real thing is it you are calling 'god'?God can never be figured out with the intellect only surrendered to. It's like the wind. It can never be caught by chasing it yet it can be felt if you're will to wait for it.
As I have said elsewhere in this forum, why would I not want for there to be such a thing as an afterlife, and all that it entails? Why would I not want to believe that there is something more to a human's existence than this relatively brief biological stint on Earth?I claim that you know God, you just don't like his existence and are in rebellion against Him.
No, that is not what I claim. I guess if you are infallible, does it matter what I claim?You claim that you simply have no knowledge of any gods.
While this is a tacit admission that you lack actual evidence for the existence of gods, it does beg the question: why do you claim that I know "God", if only to appear as lying or as deluded into thinking you know what others think?Here we'll have to agree to disagree.
I am open to other methodologies that would demonstrate that the veracity of a given biblical account.Are you looking for scientific work that attempts to verify the biblical accounts?
Assuming a god exists, it has chosen to remain invisible. Just how does it better serve this god's agenda to have a world in which he doesn't manifest himself in reality? A world in which an existent god which doesn't manifest itself in reality is indistinguishable from a non-existent god?
Furthermore, why would a god set up a system in which our salvation is dependent upon believing something to exist on insufficient evidence?
Just because scripture says it; doesnt mean its true!This scriptures are clear that God is seen and known by all. You can deny that this is true in your case but here we'll have to agree to disagree.
All the major stuff is recorded in scripture.
Name one prophet that is accepted today; outside religion. If you cant, your argument failsThis isn't how it's gone down in history. Most prophets who are accepted today were not accepted during their time or were not accepted until they showed some miraculous sign that God had really sent them.
Too bad there is no proof he actually rose from the dead huh!Not per se. But if he can back up that claim that's another thing. Rising from the dead might do it.
Indeed hypocrisy hurts the credibility of the church. Corruption per se shouldn't hurt our credibility.
Faith in the biblical sense has little to do with proof. Faith is more about relational trust. It's clear to all that God exists. That's not the issue. The issue is whether or not we trust Him and submit to His authority.
When you say "If you want to know God", do you mean believe to exist?Just as God does not look upon the wicked, so to does the wicked not look upon God.
If you want to know God, you have to shed your fallen nature.
How do you know what Moses looked upon was actually a god?Even when Moses looked upon God, he was blinded and his face turned bright. And this was a man who just worked ten plagues with a staff and split a sea- there simply is no questioning where his faith was afterward.
What evidence is there that a god exists?The religion thoroughly acknowledges indirectly and directly the issue of God not revealing Himself, it is written that the evidence for God is plain and that the wicked seek not.
To have a "fallen nature", you would already have to believe. That is some circular reasoning you have there.Just as God does not look upon the wicked, so to does the wicked not look upon God.
If you want to know God, you have to shed your fallen nature.
Was Moses more than a character in a book? I hear that evidence for his existence is thinner than that for Jesus.Even when Moses looked upon God, he was blinded and his face turned bright. And this was a man who just worked ten plagues with a staff and split a sea- there simply is no questioning where his faith was afterward.
I can guess that it would be easy enough for the bible writers to jot that down, knowing that there would be skeptics asking for the religious claims to be substantiated. "The evidence for the bible is plain - it says so right here in the bible!".The religion thoroughly acknowledges indirectly and directly the issue of God not revealing Himself, it is written that the evidence for God is plain and that the wicked seek not.
lolJust as God does not look upon the wicked, so to does the wicked not look upon God.
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Anyone can play that game. Leprechauns exist, but only appear to those who sincerely believe in them! Viva the unfalsifiable!
Name one prophet that is accepted today; outside religion. If you cant, your argument fails
Why dismiss the multitudes of eyewitness testimonies that came from the first century?Too bad there is no proof he actually rose from the dead huh!
God is a God who saves sinners. There need to be sinners in order for God to be seen as a savior.Well it does! Now why would an all wise God use a church wrecked with credibility issues to manifest his tangibility?
No, the first issue is his existence; there is no empirical evidence that your God exist. That is clear to all.
The appeal to popularity is a fallacy.I'm not sure what you mean by "outside religion". Name one scientist that's accepted today outside of science.
But to your point, about 70% of Americans believe that Jesus was a prophet. He's pretty well accepted.
Please provide some names and addresses for these individuals.Why dismiss the multitudes of eyewitness testimonies that came from the first century?
There needs to be religion for there to be sin. No religion, no sin.God is a God who saves sinners. There need to be sinners in order for God to be seen as a savior.
Here we'll have to agree to disagree. I think that you know that God exists but you just very much dislike this idea.
Assuming a god exists, it has chosen to remain invisible. Just how does it better serve this god's agenda to have a world in which he doesn't manifest himself in reality? A world in which an existent god which doesn't manifest itself in reality is indistinguishable from a non-existent god?
Furthermore, why would a god set up a system in which our salvation is dependent upon believing something to exist on insufficient evidence?
If you want to persist in your ignorance as to the existence of leprechauns so be it. It's your free will choice.That is just a rather bad excuse to avoid the inevitable fact that if you drop your senses to sin, you will perceive God.
It's not like the Bible doesn't adamantly teach this from beginning to end. You are incapable of doing such, and so you will never do what is required- therein you ridicule it.
Please demonstrate in what way every God is visible.
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