That’s actually good reasoning and a fair point! Let’s say we burn all the Bible. No more Bible to site. Now, are you honest and really looking for truth? Would you really surrender your life to Jesus and live for him and deny yourself if someone ‘proved’ to you Jesus really was the son of God? In today’s world people want an argument that can fit in 144 characters or a sound bite on TV. There really is good evidence - without the Bible. We have a fallen nature that rejects the truth. In a sense, we have to be at war with our own nature. We will lose that battle in our own strength. But there is deliverance if you really want it. Most don’t. They love the self life, maximize pleasure, minimize pain till they kick the bucket. Your choice my friend. “Oh, I don’t have the time and it’s really not that important.” Few take the challenge. This guy in the video did. He grew up in a atheistic home and was himself a happy content atheist and cold case detective. But when he applied his skill to non biblical evidence, it changed his mind. He even used your argument. So...
Watch this and share your argument/disagreements afterwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhPsqjDuQg
I am not religious but I love a lot of religious people.
Beyond that I am very happy there are religious people in the world. For one thing, they (more than anyone) fight for the freedom to voice and live by their beliefs - that makes them my natural allies, since I want the same freedom.
My comment was not meant to be disrespectful - I’m just saying there are many like me who care deeply about the truth, and about right and wrong - but we don’t need a commandment from a god to know murder is wrong.
It sounds like we are not that far apart. In the interest of truth, I decline the temptation to claim knowledge that cannot be possessed. Some of the things you claim to know are - to me - in that realm of the unknowable.
That doesn’t make me better than you or worse than you - we just have different standards for what can be claimed as knowledge vs. what is in the realm of hopes and dreams.
There’s nothing wrong with hopes and dreams - without them, the world would be a bleak place indeed.