Hey, you’ve already got me researching predestination vs. free will. Genesis’s origin story is largely allegorical and aimed at explaining first causes to a primitive society, while creating a sense of identity and community in that society.
You’re a little confused as to how this “evidence” thing works, I think. Do we have anything in writing from people that were there when he was killed and/or there when he turned up again?
Maybe, I’m assuming the other faiths you have studied are similar to the other one’s I have studied. If there is one that you really think I should look at that is not shyster based I’d be happy to give it a look.
Seems to me you used faith twice and that definition fits for only the latter instance.
Is a 1st grade student able to judge the correctness of a college dissertation?
Okay, how much evidence of anything from 1st Century Israel do you think there is? Luke says he’s quoting eyewitness testimony, and that’s as close as anyone will ever get. If there is no prima facie evidence, then causal evidence must be considered.
A first grade student could spot obvious mistakes like wrong dates or misspelled words, or run a quick check on the internet to see if parts of the dissertation copied the dissertations of others.
And said evidence must be compared to other testimony.
Who went to the tomb and saw that he was missing, and who did they tell?
To follow your analogy, the first grader might look at a word, think it misspelled, but actually has it confused with another word not in his vocabulary.
Ah, there you have me. The NT accounts are confused because the witnesses were in an emotional state, surprised by the events of the resurrection, and because they weren’t set to writing until some 30+ years after the event. So the details vary, but they all agree to Jesus’s resurrection.
And you would have your hypothetical first grader assume that people that write college dissertations are incapable of making mistakes, and that if she/he sees something that looks like a mistake that student is supposed to assume, without question, that it really isn’t one?
No, I’m saying he/she isn’t qualified to judge a work that is so far beyond his/her experience and education.
A 30 year game of “telephone”-I couldn’t think of a worse type of evidence if I tried.
Just assume that mistakes cannot happen?
As I said at the start, if I hadn’t had this experience I would be an atheist (or possibly just agnostic). I can’t blame you for not accepting anecdotal evidence for miracles, and I can’t prove them either.
Non sequitur. Are we to assume that god is incapable of making mistakes, and if not, that Mankind is incapable of spotting them?
How would we know if God made a mistake?
Assuming He’s taken responsibility for creating the Adversary, I’d say that’s a whopper by any measure.
By seeing something that looks like a mistake?
Okay, do you have an example? And how can we be sure if it’s a mistake or not?
Our main source of energy, the Sun, gives us cancer. I’m pretty sure that’s a mistake, but I’m willing to be corrected by those who know better.