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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
They may believe there was a miracle but that is not evidence of a miracle.
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jar Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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 Member (Idle past 414 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
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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