On November 5, 2008 at 23:02, Dean Roddey said...
But I never claimed it was because I don't believe in
it. I said it was mythology because it's clearly a man
made story, the separate components of which were taken
from various other influences over time, not the written
down word of a super-being.
Anyway, in the end, your statement is backwards. The correct
statement is that belief in something doesn't make it
true. Proof of something makes it true. Until it's proven,
you can't claim it as fact.
If I claim that something is true, then the burden is
on me to prove it's true if I'm going to make that claim.
But, for some reason, with religion, it always seems to
be the other way around, that it's the burden of everyone
else to disprove it. I've never understood how that gets
turned around like that.
If you can claim it's true without proof, because lots
of people believe it, then Islam is als true and Bhuddism
is also true and so forth.
It is a man-told story. There is not room enough here for all the "proof" that can be offered up to support Judaism and Christianity. Interestingly enough, God does leave in the element of faith. Righteousness was credited to Abraham because he believed God and that He exists. The biggest proof I can offer is the resurrection, something not claimed anywhere else. The proof of the resurrection, the eyewitnesses etc, has been said to outweigh the evidence for any other event in ancient times. But it boils down to a 50/50 equation, it either happened or it didn't. If it did, then you are on the hook for everything. God also says in Romans that the proof of His existence is all around and always has been, ie. creation. He feels no need to prove Himself to you my friend, but the evidence is there if you really cared to look. You will find out first hand one day as well, as we all will.
Again I say, we have missed the original question that was posed, but if we have prove Christianity before we can answer the question then we are spinning our wheels. Perhaps if a theist had asked the question?
