Is faith the answer to cognitive dissonance?

Long John Silver considers stealing gold doubloons to be a blessed trait. We need something beyond somebody else's opinion - even God's opinion - to tell us what really is blessed.

It isn't that witness evidence isn't evidence. The question is whether your claimed witnesses were actually witnesses.

So you have a circular standard. The Bible is true because the Bible says it's true and there's "tons" of evidence in the Bible that the Bible is reliable.

I know your standard is single. I was pointing out that it's a poor standard. A double standard would be better if one of them was reliable - at least you'd be right half of the time. There's evidence outside the Bible that some of the Bible is true - e.g. the city of Jerusalem exists. The only evidence you have that all of the Bible is true is in the Bible. Hence, circularity.

A demonic trick would still be a miracle.

And a Scotsman is defined as somebody who eats his porridge in a certain way - nothing whatever to do with Scotland.

I know. You're using the word incorrectly. A miracle is a suspension of the laws of nature. You can distinguish between "Godly miracles" and "ungodly miracles" if you like but you can't just make up your own definitions.Edited by ringo, : No reason given.

But God finding us is irrelevant. God choosing us is irrelevant. The question is, "How do we know we've been found?"