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Originally Posted by Cheese
So what implausible event would make you change your mind? I find faith in the implausible difficult to believe. For me irrefutable proof is required.
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Ouch!
I cannot think of anything that would convince me otherwise. My faith has provided me understanding and guidance in so many many areas, an abandonment of my convictions just makes no sense on any level. Your challenge is akin to "what could happen to convince you to stop breathing?"
I should make a clarification between
implausible and
unreasonable. It is
implausible that the events of the Old Testament took place as they were recorded, but I do not believe it to be
unreasonable to accept that there is a God whose activity and impact is perceptible, and has been interpretted through circumstances in time, which have resulted in the Old Testament.
Is there any such thing as irrefutable proof? I suppose if you trust your senses to provide you a completely accurate and infallible presentation of the world, the universe and everything. If you otherwise believe that there is something beyond perceiving and knowing, then there really can be no such thing as "irrefutable proof." Such a thing for me is only useful in terms of the physical world; but spirituality is a different thing altogether, and it is irrefutably un-provable.