Do you believe in
the supernatural claims made in the Bible?
you should have read the paragraph after paragraph that Russ posted in a previous story when confronted with the simple question about providing evidence outside of the bible for
the supernatural claims made in the bible......
Even if Jesus existed it doesn't prove any of
the supernatural claims made about him.
Not exact matches
But when people go around
making statements and
claims that their particular
supernatural explaination is just as real as the car in the street, don't be surprised that people will call them on their
claim.
How is that atheists can
claim there is no
supernatural causation without any evidence whatsoever then accuse believers of
making claims without evidence?
If you
claim the methodology of neutralizing potentially confounding variables limits possibilities to that of the natural then you also
make an argument for the
supernatural never to be observed by science due to it's methodology.
Some parts have been proven to be fiction, other parts, mainly the
supernatural claims, can not be verified, and do not
make any sense, so referring to it as fiction would be accurate, though there are some historically accurate things in it.
If it
makes any
claim that involves spirits, demons, or other
supernatural forces it's an example of someone who believes in
supernatural forces wrongly
claiming with no evidence that they are responsible for something they aren't.
Making unfounded
claims of the
supernatural, about «life after death», muddies the water, creates conflict, destroys what it
claims to build.
By witnessing to the natural law, we can
make our
claims about the
supernatural law — the law of Grace — all the more believable.
Austin: How about being honest and instead of
making claims that you can't support, given that
supernatural CA N'T be known, you include the disclaimer of «I believe...»?
Man -
made fictional unverifiable
claims of the
supernatural baseless nonsense without a single thing to back it up
made up stories to scare children.
We do not want all the bloodshed, teaching of pseudo science to children, the corruption of children's minds, government subsidies to those who
claim to know the unknowable, elected leaders who consult with the
supernatural in their decision -
making, and the list just goes on and on.
True, there is no absolute evidence for either, and the burden of proof should be on the person who is
making the
claim (the one
claiming a superpower or
supernatural influence).
Once all the disclaimers have been
made — that many religious beliefs are supremely difficult to test for truth because they refer to the
supernatural or to that which it is beyond our mental powers to discern, or because (in the case of faith) they are values and not truth -
claims — once all this has been said, we still have to admit that yes, of course the question of truth enters in here.
We do not have a set of «natural» goods and ends in which we can rest and be happy, we have only a
supernatural end - «You have
made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless till they rest in You» - and yet no creature can
make a
claim on God which obliges Him.
But like with a lot of other
supernatural religious as.sertions, human discoveries
made the absudities of such
claims apparant.
The problem I have with most religions is this; You have a book written by men long ago, when the earth was flat and the center of the universe,
making amazing
supernatural claims.
I am not
making these
claims as a
supernatural «word of knowledge» or anything of that sort.
Atheism need not
make any positive
claims about the possible existence of a
supernatural agent.
When atheists
make remarks about «God», we are referring to «the
supernatural being which you call God and the
claims which you
make about «him»».
Our declaration does not however
make any
claim of divine authorship or
claim any
supernatural events.
Your mythical bible
makes all these insane
supernatural claims of some jew 2000 years ago that can never and will never be proved.
When a group of people
make extraordinary,
supernatural, and unverifiable
claims, it is called «Religion.»
A fertilized egg is not a «human life» but not a surprise from someone that
makes claims of the
supernatural based on their imagination.
When one person
makes extraordinary,
supernatural, and unverifiable
claims, it is called «Insanity.»
The
claims of miracles were also
made by other religions and religious figures... when you understand why you reject those as being true you will understand why we reject the
supernatural claims of Jesus.
When Christians stop caring what candidates believe or don't religiously and atheists stop irrationally
claiming any
supernatural belief
makes you a danger to society and unfit for office, that'll be a good day.
The fact that man has
made up thousands of gods... the fact that many of those stories were taken from previous cultures, the fact that 90 % of what Jesus allegedly said was taught by the Buddha 400 years earlier... FAR more evidence of any of the
supernatural claims, which is absolutely zero, nothing, not one shred of evidence ever.
Didn't you just
claim that ««Until there's «
supernatural» stuff somewhere to do tests on it's just philosophical «
Make up your mind!
All of them head to the Maryland woods to discover whether the
supernatural claims about the Blair Witch are true, and after contradictory and inconclusive results over a single night they proceed to an abandoned broom factory (I'm not
making this up), where Jeff currently lives.
For example, if an individual
makes supernatural claims that Leprechauns were responsible for breaking a vase, the simpler explanation would be that he is mistaken, but ongoing ad hoc justifications (e.g. «and that's not me on the film; they tampered with that, too») successfully prevent outright falsification.