Evidence please

Originally posted by @dj2becker
What is your true motive for asking this question?

To hear you answer it.

Originally posted by @whodey
So if I claim to be a prophet of God and my prophesies come true it means nothing?

Seems to me that you have simply provided 'evidence' of the NT being composed quite consciously to align the Jesus story with ancient Hebrew mythology by people who were conversant in that mythology but who were committed to setting up the new religion. From your point of view, the same 'evidence' leads you to believe that Jesus was a supernatural being around whom all manner of magical things happened. I suppose you find my deduction far-fetched. But I feel the same way about your deduction.

Originally posted by @whodey
So what would be evidence? Raising someone from the dead?

The problem is he is the sole person here that will decide what qualifies as 'evidence' and what doesn't without even defining what he means by 'evidence'. Since he already believes there is no 'evidence' for the existence of God he will just tell you sorry that doesn't qualify because he is simply trolling us.

Originally posted by @dj2becker to whodey about divegeester
The problem is divegeester is the sole person here that will decide what qualifies as 'evidence' and what doesn't without even defining what he means by 'evidence'.

If he believes in and feels inspired by Christ, what does it matter to you how he has arrived at that spiritual situation/realization. You may be more of an ideologue or theologian than he is, but so what if he is a follower of Jesus?

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What criteria would you use to decide whether or not the presented evidence qualifies as real evidence? If you cannot answer this question you are wasting everyone's time.

If in fact you were sincerely interested in evidence rather than trolling I'm sure you would at least look up some of Lee Strobel and Josh McDowell's books on the matter. But I bet you won't bother because you're just trolling anyway.

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What objective criteria would you use to decide whether or not the examples I give you qualify as 'evidence'?

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I HAVE presented the prophecy in the Bible as evidence. If you reject it as evidence the onus is on you to tell me why it does not qualify as evidence and according to which objective criteria you were able to reach this conclusion. We both know you have no objective criteria so it’s your subjective opinion vs my subjective opinion so we can agree to disagree.

Originally posted by @dj2becker
The problem is divegeester is the sole person here that will decide what qualifies as 'evidence' and what doesn't without even defining what he means by 'evidence'.

But, to your way of thinking, isn't this the prerogative of every follower of Christ, including you?

Originally posted by @fmf
But, to your way of thinking, isn't this the prerogative of every follower of Christ, including you?

The prerogative to do what?

Originally posted by @stellspalfie
'As a whole, Buddhism has little directly to say about Jesus Christ. It does acknowledge what most men do: that He was a great person. For the most part, however, His Gospel teachings are largely ignored and a more convenient Jesus is accepted: one who, along with the Buddha, smiles serenely.

I cant read this without doing the 'Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy' voice in my head.

It does indeed have Stephen Fry written all over it. 🙂