I'm considering converting to christianity, but I am not sure I can truly belive in something which I have no strong evidence for. So, why should I belive?
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I'm considering converting to christianity, but I am not sure I can truly belive in something which I have no strong evidence for. So, why should I belive?
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>but I am not sure I can truly belive in something which I have no strong evidence for.
>So, why should I believe?
Exactly!
I love how Soren just proved that Christianity is nihilist cope which is why you unironically get people that think that you can't have meaning or morals without god, and everyone would go on a murder spree without Jesus
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They have no evidence. I suggest you don’t bother and work on improving your diet, working out, getting out more, download dating apps, dress normal if you already don’t, shave and cut your hair to look good and get cracking on a real man’s life.
That's what makes it faith. If you need strong evidence, like I did, then you're wicked. Yes I just confessed to being wicked. I'm a very flawed man.
Praise God for saving us from our wickedness
Ok maybe strong evidence is too much, but some evidence would be nice.
What about the prophecies of Christ?
Evidence for what exactly?
Weak evidence is still evidence anon
i was unhappy
i converted
now i am happy
I was looking for a god and then I found a god
and heaven knows I'm miserable now
>but I am not sure I can truly belive in something which I have no strong evidence for
You're already doing that. When materialists advance the claim that atheism should be taken as the default position and theism has to be empirically demonstrated they have fashioned an unproveable view of the cosmos taken on faith. Except it's not real faith like the kind that links man to the divine, it's a false faith that's so gay that its believers refuse to call it faith. You're addicted to your mundane view of the world because you don't want to accept that it is fundamentally enchanted and brimming with life. Stick with it or leave it behind, it's all up to you.
Can you make stuff levitate or burst into flames by praying to your god? I'll convert to your religion if you can.
I've read tales of Christians and other religious people accomplishing some pretty incredible things. Sometimes even the irreligious encounter something they "can't explain." But this is a really lazy reply that doesn't engage with the real content of my post at all.
That's great, I've also read lots of books about wizards and shit. What I asked should be nothing out of the ordinary, Yahweh is even canonically supposed to have done the fire trick as a demonstration that he's the real deal.
What exactly do you want me to say to this? It's not clear if you intended to make any substantial point here. Almost all replies I get from atheists are unproductive idle chatter. I think I made some pretty good points in my posts about how atheists are fundamentally irrational and superstitious because they set up arbitrary qualifications for what is "real proof" while refusing to admit that they're unproveable. If any one wants to engage with the meat of what I said, he is most welcome.
I didn't set up a qualification for what is "real proof", I gave you an example of what would be sufficient proof to me - and that example was actually something that god has done before according to the Bible.
Let's get real - you don't believe in a generic god of the philosophers, you believe in a god who is supposed to have engaged in exactly the kind of parlor tricks that you deride here. The bait and switch is quite pathetic.
And by the way, theism *has* been empirically demonstrated beyond all doubt. It's just that atheists aren't willing to accept the evidence that God has given, because it doesn't match their arbitrary categories of what real evidence is. Again, such categories are taken on false faith. They want to meet God and shake His hand, and because they can't do that, they claim there is no evidence.
Even if I buy this, why favor christianity over other religions?
The is no "evidence". The "evidence" is knowing that death can be conquered and that we can rise again.