POLL: Is there a God ??
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As has been discussed a million times in this thread, the historical, archeological, and prophetic EVIDENCE for Jesus Christ's life, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection is vastly, and I mean vastly, superior to the totality of evidence for all other deities combined that have ever been worshipped during civilization.
Don't take my word for it. Do the research yourself.
In this thread alone, you have gone from saying you don't believe a God exists to saying God does not exist. As a typical atheist, you can't even keep your own position straight.
WildcatfaninOhio
All-American
If there were verifiable, provable evidence that the person known as Jesus was a real person, was half-god half-human, was born to a virgin, was killed on our behalf, and his soul went up into the sky somewhere to be with the creator of the universe, I wouldn’t need to do any research. The moment that the verifiable evidence was attained there would be wall to wall media coverage. No other world events would come close to that news.
So I’m guessing that whatever evidence you think you’ve found isn’t provable at all.
You lose all credibility when you deny the reality of Jesus' existence. Yikes.
Do you also deny that Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc. existed as well?
There is more evidence for the existence of Jesus then there is for the three I mention above.
To be consistent, please make sure to let everyone know that those three individuals did not exist.
WildcatfaninOhio
All-American
So you choose to zero in on his existence? Even if he did exist, what does that mean? I need the verifiable evidence that his mother was a virgin, his father was the creator of the universe, he was killed for our salvation, and 3 days later he came back to life and floated up into the sky.
Atheists don’t know what the word “evidence” means. That is one obvious take from this thread.
This documentary on quantum mechanics/entanglement does a much better job of explaining what I have previously (but poorly) tried to lay out as mathematical proof that a supernatural force, that pulls strings/influences things in the PHYSICAL universe but is not actually a PART of that universe. That is the very definition of God. It has been proven that the force IS there/exists, and yet, it is unseeable/knowable.
“[W]hat you think about death, and life beyond it, is the key to thinking seriously about everything else — and, indeed, that it provides one of the main reasons for thinking seriously about anything at all.” NT Wright in Surprised by Hope.
[M]an’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. After the Flood there was a sort of rebirth of the world, but not many years passed by before men were fashioning gods according to their pleasure … Man’s mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives an unreality and an empty appearance as God.
To these evils a new wickedness joins itself, that man tries to express in his work the sort of God he has inwardly conceived. Therefore the mind begets an idol; the hand gives it birth. The example of the Israelites shows the origin of idolatry to be that men do not believe God is with them unless he shows himself physically present.
- Calvin
To these evils a new wickedness joins itself, that man tries to express in his work the sort of God he has inwardly conceived. Therefore the mind begets an idol; the hand gives it birth. The example of the Israelites shows the origin of idolatry to be that men do not believe God is with them unless he shows himself physically present.
- Calvin
If you had that, faith would no longer be required. I know you don't uunderstand the significance of that but it is important.
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