Moved to 'religion' ...
Boraxman wrote to jimmylogan <=-
Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: jimmylogan to Boraxman on Sat May 17 2025 08:02 pm
Boraxman wrote to Jcurtis <=-
In the end, it comes down to whether you believe a claim made by another human being or not, and for me, I generally don't.
Do you believe George Washington existed? Abraham Lincoln?
Or another leader from your history that existed before
photographs?
There are multiple sources which all corroborate their existence. If
they did not exist, there would be problems explaning our world.
This is different to the Gods people have believed in, in which, if
they did not exist, would not cause any explanatory problems.
We have eyewitness accounts that corroborate the existence of Jesus
the Christ. He claimed to BE God and said He would die and rise again
after three days in the ground. He did this - again, eyewitness
accounts corroborate this.
If He managed to do this, then His claim of being God is legit.
I'm not close minded, I have experienced things that defy e
myself, but I need to see/experience something myself to believe.
I dare say you believe a LOT of what you have been 'taught' to
believe, even though you didn't see or experience it... :-) Most
of us do.
Not all of it. There are some things people say are true, which I know are not, and there are some things people say are not true, which I
know are.
As for things that I did not see, such as the Cambrian explosion, my adherence to that truth is as strong as it needs to be. The more doubt
I have, or more specifically, the more the possibility that there is
room that I am wrong, the less forceful I am with that belief.
My point is though that you believe in a LOT of things that you have never personally seen. We as humans take the word of historical accounts all
the time.
... Hookd on foniks wurkd for mee!
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