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Do You Believe? [Spirituality & Religion]

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I definitely don't. There's just no evidence for supernatural things like the resurrection.
All we get is one holy book with no corroborating sources.
Just doesn't cut it for me.
It might be nice to believe but the evidence simply isn't there.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]I definitely don't. There's just no evidence for supernatural things like the resurrection.[/quote]

Try seeing the miracles that happen every day.
@GodSpeed63

You know what? If someone prays for an amputee to regrow a limb and he does, i'll buy your miracle lark.
Until then...
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]If someone prays for an amputee to regrow a limb and he does, i'll buy your miracle lark.[/quote]

I've noticed you never went near the videos on miracles to posts replies on them.
@GodSpeed63

Not sure which videos you're talking about. Why, does someone re-grow a limb?
See, i'm looking for something that can't be explained any other way. Not an illness that went into remission, not some lucky break but something that genuinely CANNOT be explained without supernatural intervention.

So like i said, when an amputee regrows a limb, hit me up😉
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]Not sure which videos you're talking about. Why, does someone re-grow a limb?[/quote]

If you cannot believe in the truth when someone rises from the dead, how will you believe when someone regains their limbs?
@GodSpeed63

lol EASY.

I have to accept on faith something written in an old book to believe that there was any miraculous rising from the grave.
I don't believe it.

But if an amputee gets prayed for and their limb regrows? That's not a matter of trusting that some old writings are true.
That's a real-world miracle, son!

It sounds like you're saying there's no limb regrowing in your video. In fact despite all the chrisitians all over the world, i don't know of anyone, [i]anywhere[/i] regrowing a limb through the power of the lord.

Funny that.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]EASY.[/quote]

Yes, easy.
@GodSpeed63

...yes, easy...

You asked me how i could believe in the miracle of a regrown limb despite not being convinced of the veracity of a bronze-age book of mythology.
The answer is easy and obvious🙂
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]You asked me how i could believe in the miracle of a regrown limb despite not being convinced of the veracity of a bronze-age book of mythology.[/quote]

What bronze-age book?
@GodSpeed63

The bible
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]The bible[/quote]

What bible would that be?
@GodSpeed63

Oh you know the one: genesis, exodus, matthew, romans and so on
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]Oh you know the one: Genesis, Exodus, Matthew, Romans and so on[/quote]

What makes you think it's bronze age book?
@GodSpeed63

Because during the time most of the events were meant to have taken place, it was what is known as the bronze age. Or maybe it was the iron age... Doesn't matter. It's an old book is all i'm saying lol.

So to get us back on track, i'm willing to believe that a regrown limb is miraculous but i find referencing an ancient book of mythology to be unconvincing as a source.

I don't know if i can be any clearer than that.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]Because during the time most of the events were meant to have taken place, it was what is known as the bronze age. [/quote]

What makes you think all those took place during the 'bronze age'?
@GodSpeed63

So to get us back on track, i'm willing to believe that a regrown limb is miraculous but i find referencing an ancient book of mythology to be unconvincing as a source.

I don't know if i can be any clearer than that.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]I don't know if i can be any clearer than that.[/quote]

How much more can I be clear on the fact that if you refuse to believe, even when a one rise from death, that you will refuse to believe even when one regains a limb. In other words, you'll refuse to believe regardless of the evidence put before you.
@GodSpeed63

lol bud. don't be so [i]arrogant[/i] as to try to tell me what i would do. Especially when i've made my ACTUAL position clear to you.

[quote]regardless of the evidence put before you.[/quote]

No, NOT regardless. That quality of evidence is ENTIRELY the point lol
The "evidence" that anyone rose from the dead only comes from an ancient book of mythology with no sources of corroboration. And so i don't consider that sufficient evidence to accept a claim of rising from the dead.

By contrast, seeing a limb regrown or even having good, medical documentation of it would be miraculous. I would be forced to admit that, that was a miracle.

I have made this painfully clear for you. If you don't understand it now then it's because you don't want to.
Or you really ARE so arrogant that you think you can dictate to other people what they think and feel.
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]don't be so arrogant as to try to tell me what i would do.[/quote]

Bud, God has given you proof that He lives and evidence that He is at work. If you're going to call someone arrogant, start with yourself first being that you've demonstrated it enough.
@GodSpeed63

[quote]If you're going to call someone arrogant, start with yourself[quote][/quote][/quote]


Sorrr, son but i'ma start with you. And the reason is that you attempted to tell [i]me[/i] about what [i][b]I[/b][/i] would or would not accept even after i explained it to you.
That is arrogant. If you don't like it, correct your behaviour.
Simple.

[quote], God has given you proof that He lives and evidence that He is at work[/quote]

Maybe. Maybe not.
That has nothing to do with what we're talking about though: bible unreliable as evidence, regrown limb evidence of miracle.
Funny how all this "evidence" god as given is so open to interpretation. Gimme a healed amputee and we'll talk!😆
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]Sorry, son but I'm start with you[/quote]

Arrogance is for liars and for the puffed up. Jesus Christ gave me a heart for the truth since I became born again. I've challenged you to show otherwise and you wouldn't do it. I've challenged you to see for yourself that Yahweh is real and you wouldn't do it. Even now you show arrogance in postings. Again, if you're going to call someone arrogant, start with yourself. Show some backbone for a change and start seeking the truth once and for all wherever it leads you.
@GodSpeed63

[quote]Jesus Christ gave me a heart for the truth[/quote]

Good stuff. So don't be an arrogant donk by dictating to other people what they believe😉.
Problem solved.

If it's arrogant to not be convinced by an ancient book of mythology then i guess i'm arrogant lol. I know you disagree with my findings but i hope y ou at least have the humility to recognize that i [i]am[/i] seeking the truth to the best of my ability.
If i don't believe your god or any other is real it's not because i [i]won't[/i], it's because i can't. I can't decide that i'm convinced your god is real any more than you can decide that you're convinced that allah is the one true god.
Simple as that.🙂
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]So don't be an arrogant donk by dictating to other people what they believe[/quote]

How am I doing that?
@GodSpeed63

How quickly you forget your own words:

[quote]How much more can I be clear on the fact that if you refuse to believe, even when a one rise from death, that you will refuse to believe even when one regains a limb. In other words, you'll refuse to believe regardless of the evidence put before you.
[/quote]

How are you arrogant?
You declare that i am refusing to believe, pretending to know my motivations and dictating them to me and further announcing that i won't believe any evidence as if you have [i]any[/i] valid ground to make that claim.
All you know is that i don't believe the thing you believe and yet you insist on telling me what i will and will not accept AND you do this in direct contradiction to my explanations about myself.

So YEAH son, you're being [b][i]arrogant[/i][/b]! lol
If you don't like being called out for bad behaviour then correct the behaviour.😉👍
GodSpeed63 · 61-69, M
@Pikachu [quote]How quickly you forget your own words:[/quote]

I didn't forget my words, just being truthful with you.