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RE: Look around. Are you really fooled this easily?

in #religion8 years ago (edited)

You make these absolute statements with no backup but your personal opinion. The Bible makes its statements with thousands of years of human interactions with God and historically documented "signs" from Him.

But when Jesus was asked by unbelievers to do still more signs, he said:

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the Law said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a miraculous sign from you.” He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

So he allowed Himself over three days to suffer, be crucified, and buried. Then rose again on the third day and showed himself to hundreds of people over the next month or so.

I'm going with God's evidence, not yours. :)

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That's not evidence though.

That's just stuff that's written down. I could also write down, "And so some of the people questioned the Lord, and the Lord said, "Actually, yeah, I'm just a guy who wanted to start a cult because I think if people believe the things I say, they'll behave better. But they won't even listen to me unless they think I'm a god."

No, it was written down, treasured, reproduced, and distributed church by church all around the mediterranean and used by people who knew the authors and each other. So from the very beginning these eyewitness accounts were shared with other eyewitnesses. Today we have 5600 fragments dating back to a generation that knew the authors. This is how we know we have correct information: massive redundancy. During the first few hundred years you would be killed if caught with one of these documents so there is only one reason to keep, reproduce, and share them. They believed those eyewitnesses.