Jmfsct I'm bored so I will debate with your logical absurdities knowing that have as much good as banging my head against a concrete head repeatedly until the end of the time.
Considering you do know something about scripture, this is a pretty ignorant strawman argument since the bible never offers “proof” to the masses, but rather the only thing it offers is the testimony of others. Such proof would immediately invalidate the gift of faith, which would leave only works and would therefore close the pathway to salvation.
So the appeal of your religion is in its improvability. That's wonderful. You have given no reason to have faith except to point out its obvious extrinsic truth.... which does not seem like obvious extrinsic truth to me.
Imagine I am a Muslim. I hold that everything in the Qu'ran is infalliable and true. My evidence for this is... the Qu'ran which tells me everything in the Qu'ran is true. This, as I'm sure you know Jmfsct, is a logical fallacy known as "the argument from authority".
Under this argument therefore is no way of showing how one text is more true than the other. There is no way to compare texts and say one is more than the others except by
a priori accepting that one is already more true than the others.
So Jmfsct the challenge therefore for you is to explain me
without recourse to the good book why I should have faith and your faith in particular. I want you to elaborate for me on this very topic or else I remain skeptical.
But what you can't argue is that because of your
personal subjective experience you have some superior knowledge to me that validates your faith. You can't say "I had this experience therefore I became a believer therefore God is true" because many people here
haven't had that sort of experience and thus have no personal-subjective reason to believe in God. Then you will be forced to show how your own experience
is superior to the non-believers here - and how can you prove that one's subjectivity is better than anothers? Why should I hold that because
you had an experience (which I of course can't experience) that means
I should believe? On what basis are you priviledging yourself over others... (and no Jmfsct you can't argue "Because I am believer" that's pure circular logic. You're quite good at that btw).
(A side note: Could we ever have a religious text which said something like... "large parts of this are fiction and other bits are true. But I'm not telling you which. Guess". Perhaps the Guessing would become the essential part of that religion yet unknown to man).
