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Author Topic:   The Tension of Faith
jar
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Message 996 of 1540 (824498)
11-29-2017 4:38 PM
Reply to: Message 994 by PaulK
11-29-2017 4:34 PM


messengers
Or maybe Muhammad who is quoted as saying:
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

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jar
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Message 1000 of 1540 (824505)
11-29-2017 5:21 PM
Reply to: Message 998 by Phat
11-29-2017 5:04 PM


Re: God, Satan, and the cosmic battle. What IF?
Phat writes:
OK how about a spiritual war of behaviors!
What if the Biblical Christians are right, there is a personal good and a personal evil and humans are the chess pieces in this cosmic game of brinksmanship?
You might say that if this were true the proper response would be to laugh at it. But what if that response itself played into the hands of one of the combatants?
Again, that is simply utter stupidity.
The proper response is to do what Jesus said and laugh at the Biblical Christians.
AbE: and laugh at their God and their Satan and sell popcorn to those watching the farce.
Edited by jar, : see AbE:

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jar
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Message 1016 of 1540 (824624)
12-01-2017 10:57 AM
Reply to: Message 1015 by ringo
12-01-2017 10:38 AM


Re: the nature of evidence
Or 1066 & All That that contains a memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates.

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jar
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Message 1018 of 1540 (824634)
12-01-2017 1:45 PM
Reply to: Message 1017 by Faith
12-01-2017 1:41 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
Faith writes:
I think miracles can only be known by testimony of witnesses, except of course to the witnesses themselves.
Perhaps you can explain how anyone can know that any miracle happened?
How does one "witness" a miracle?

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jar
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Message 1025 of 1540 (824645)
12-01-2017 3:10 PM
Reply to: Message 1019 by Faith
12-01-2017 1:59 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
Faith writes:
People saw Lazarus alive, then saw him dead, saw him wrapped for burial and buried, smelled him when he started to stink, saw Jesus come and command him to get up, saw him walk out of the tombwhen Jesus raised him.
Sorry Faith but there is no evidence there of any miracle.
Faith writes:
People saw the water pots at the wedding, saw them filled with water, saw Jesus cause one to change to wine, saw the wine immediately after they saw the water and Jesus turning it to wine.
Sorry Faith, not only is there no evidence of a miracle there but it is also not what the story actually says. Have you ever read the Bible Faith?
In fact there is no evidence of any miracle in any of your accounts. There may be things that cannot be explained but there is no evidence of a miracle.;
You need to try again.

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jar
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Message 1037 of 1540 (824681)
12-02-2017 9:10 AM
Reply to: Message 1036 by Tangle
12-02-2017 8:56 AM


Re: the nature of evidence
Tangle writes:
The transubstantiation of wine and bread into the body and blood of Christ at every Catholic mass is a claimed miracle. It's not a metaphor, it's claimed to be real.
But even if tests showed the wine did turn into blood literally it is still not evidence of a miracle.

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jar
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Message 1041 of 1540 (824689)
12-02-2017 11:27 AM
Reply to: Message 1040 by Phat
12-02-2017 10:57 AM


Re: Evidence By Definition
Phat writes:
But if the Eucharist could actually be tested, how would this not be evidence of a miracle...if it was also verified that it was either wine or grapejuice before the blessing?
The whole idea of grape juice instead of wine is REALLY REALLY REALLY stupid.
Now that that is out of the way, it would be evidence that not blood changed into blood but not of any miracle. It would go into the unexplained pile but only a simpleton would jump to "miracle" as though that explained anything.

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jar
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Message 1043 of 1540 (824708)
12-02-2017 3:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1042 by kbertsche
12-02-2017 1:40 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
Miracles are what we believe on faith alone is a miracle. They exist only within or imagination.
The thing or act or vision may well exist but a miracle is only a name we create and assign.

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jar
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Message 1047 of 1540 (824721)
12-02-2017 5:42 PM
Reply to: Message 1045 by Faith
12-02-2017 4:05 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
Faith writes:
Nonsense. Water does not normally become wine in the blink of an eye and if it did that wouild clearly be a miracle, something that does not normally occur in the natural course of events. If a wide and deep body of water splits so that the dry ground at its bottom becomes a safe path to walk through it, that is certainly a miracle. Etc etc.
Utter nonsense Faith.
You might believe it is a miracle but there is no evidence for a miracle.
Sorry Faith but claiming a miracle happened is only a figment of the imagination unless you can provide direct verifiable evidence of the process, procedure, model, method or mechanism.
All you show are things YOU cannot explain; evidence of ignorance.

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jar
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Message 1048 of 1540 (824722)
12-02-2017 5:43 PM
Reply to: Message 1044 by Faith
12-02-2017 3:59 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
They may believe there was a miracle but that is not evidence of a miracle.

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jar
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Message 1051 of 1540 (824733)
12-02-2017 7:55 PM
Reply to: Message 1050 by Tangle
12-02-2017 6:39 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
Tangle writes:
Jar writes:
But even if tests showed the wine did turn into blood literally it is still not evidence of a miracle.
You're going to have to explain that.
The point is that calling it a miracle explains nothing. All we would know is that tests showed the wine did turn into blood; not why or how it happened.
Calling something a miracle is as silly as claiming Goddidit.
Someone might believe it was a miracle but that is simply a belief, not evidence that it is a miracle whatever a miracle even is.
We can, and historically we did, label many unexplained things miracles but in every case what we are actually doing is pleading ignorance.

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jar
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Message 1055 of 1540 (824742)
12-03-2017 6:43 AM
Reply to: Message 1054 by Tangle
12-03-2017 3:03 AM


Re: the nature of evidence
Tangle writes:
No. What we would know is that a man can change the physical nature of wine just by talking at it. And we know that that is impossible. So it would be a testable, reproducable miracle, not just something we don't understand yet.
So you claim. But the evidence over time has shown that what is believed to be impossible is in fact possible.
It would still just be something we do not understand.

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jar
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Message 1058 of 1540 (824749)
12-03-2017 10:49 AM
Reply to: Message 1057 by Tangle
12-03-2017 9:27 AM


Re: the nature of evidence
Tangle writes:
We now know that it is impossible to turn wine into blood just by talking at it. And we also know why. So if it actually did we'd know it was a miracle.
It would still just be something we do not understand.
Too funny.
So all you are saying is that YOU decided to call something not understood a miracle.
Okay, if that makes you happy, go for it.
But I still cannot see any evidence that a miracle happened.

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jar
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Message 1064 of 1540 (824762)
12-03-2017 12:46 PM
Reply to: Message 1061 by Tangle
12-03-2017 11:39 AM


Re: the nature of evidence
Tangle writes:
Don't be an arse. I saying quite specifically that turning wine into blood by talking at it is impossible. Tell me I'm wrong.
Too funny.
I will tell you I don't know if wine can be turned into blood. I know I don't know how to do it but if there was evidence that it happened my position would be "It happened but I don't know how!" not "It's a miracle."
Sorry but you have not presented any reason to think it a miracle other then you believe it is impossible.

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jar
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Posts: 34026
From: Texas!!
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Message 1068 of 1540 (824775)
12-03-2017 3:13 PM
Reply to: Message 1067 by Tangle
12-03-2017 1:47 PM


Re: the nature of evidence
Tangle writes:
That's because you know that miracles don't happen. It would seem like a magic trick or a fraud or somesuch. But if all of a sudden ever chalice in the land turned into blood and there was no other possible explanation you'd be left with the miracle.
No, I would be left with an unexplained event. You might be left with a miracle but that does not mean I would be left with a miracle.
Tangle writes:
It would be a miracle because what has happened is impossible.
Too funny.
No, if it happened then it is certainly not impossible.

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