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Originally Posted by flames85
- Nature is incredible. Take time to look at anything closely, and you'll have a hard time explaining it as coincidence.
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That's not evidence, at least not in a scientific sense. It may speak to your heart, but that's not evidence.
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- Historical events that seem to be impossible without supernatural intervention (defeat of the Spanish Armada, rise and fall of kingdoms, etc.)
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Seeming impossible isn't the same as being impossible.
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- Miracles (I've witnessed a few first hand and there are many in the Bible. I'm sure you all have stories about miracles?)
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Biblical miracles can't be used as evidence because they're second hand accounts of events that happened decades before the authors wrote about them. Ever play the phone game as a kid? Stories change with the telling? Imagine what happens when trying to write a book based on decades of oral history.
Witnessing miracles might be interesting. What kind of miracles. Is there proof? Video tape, hospital records, that sort of thing?
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- Prophecy and fulfillment of prophecy (there were over 300 prophecies of Jesus' life, and all came true)
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See the miracles part; it's easy to write things in a way that fulfill prophecies if you go read the prophecies before you write it. (this prophecy thing is a huge topic, but I've yet to see any prophecy and fulfillment that can only be explained by prophecy and fulfillment).
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- Humans have an innate desire to worship something (God, money, themselves, etc.), and it seems unlikely that they could invent that.
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Argument from personal incredulity; just because you think it's unlikely doesn't mean it is.
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- Humans seem to have a natural understanding of right and wrong (whether we choose to ignore it is a different story).
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This is only evidence for God if God is the only possible source of this understanding. Society and genetics are also possible sources.
[b]- If you look at Jesus' life, you could conclude he was either A) insane, B) a liar, or C) who He claimed to be. Most people would agree that He gave no indication of the first two.[/quote]
Why are those the only three options? And why would you claim to know enough about Jesus' life to be able to make those the three options? Jesus left no writings of his own.