I Know That God Does Not Exist

All the evidence you give is by looking at results. I can just as easily look at the results involving thoughts of self giving love and claim that it proves there is a god.

I can prove that people exisy and that people have emotions and are capable of empathy. That requires something beyond a collection of mindless chemicals. Therefore there is a god.I know that is isn't proof to the point that I can say that I know there is a god, but I'm using the same logic that you are using to come to your conclusion.

But there is evidence. We know about Julius Caesar as someone wrote about him. We know about Jesus and His resurrection because people wrote about it.You can say that the evidence can't be verified, that they were wrong or even lying but the fact remains, it is evidence.Also, we exist with intelligence and a knowledge of morality and with the ability to empathize . That requires an explanation for which there is either an intelligent root or a non-intelligent root. It does leave a choice. As there is a choice it is evidence to be considered.

You are only talking about the amount of support from other sources for the evidence. That in no way eliminates the Gospel accounts as being evidence. You again are only talking about the quality of the evidence. Again, what you say does absolutely nothing to refute the fact that the Gospel accounts are evidence. The Gospel weren't simply original material. They were as Luke describes compilations of earlier material. Paul had access to eyewitnesses as we have him meeting with James and other contemporaries of Jesus. However, that isn't the point. You again are talking about the quality of what is clearly evidence. Sure, because a world wide flood would leave evidence that just isn't there but that was written by different authors several centuries earlier. It sure is, and we can only stand back in amazement when we consider the intelligence required to design and implement it.

You keep giving the reasons that you discount the evidence, which simply makes the point that the Gospels are evidence or you wouldn't have anything to discount.

I can't do better than Faith's reply.

That is as much of a belief as what Phat writes and doesn't make it true either. My belief is that the Bible is a collection of mythologies, personal beliefs, or giving an account of events which may or may not have a cultural or personal bias. By faith we are called to sort out what God has to say to us collectively or as individuals to what is written through all of it.