>Peter, the stars in the sky are very distant spheres of fire like our own sun. The speed at which their light reaches us is bound by the speed limit of the universe. They are not eternal, they will eventually expand and then contract into a form so dense that even light cannot escape its attractive force.
>This won't make much sense to you but mark my words carefully, they will prove my undeniable divinity to the entire world one day.
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the earth is flat with a dome and you will never go to space
>Peter, there is a massive continent that lies in the ocean between Rome and Asia. It has millions of inhabitants that have never heard the word of God. Once ships are capable of making this journey, I will be proven right and all will know that I am the true son of God.
And he was a good friend
If God offered concrete scientific proof of himself, then the importance of belief and trust would be nullified.
Why is being gullible a good thing?
If a family member called you up and said their car broke down on the highway and they need a ride home, would you ask for some sort of empirical proof and evidence? Or would you trust them, believe the story, and go help?
Believing something does not inherently make one gullible.
If somebody whom I've never met in my life or even heard of called me and said "Hey, you may not know this but I'm your secret cousin. Will you help my tow my car?", I'd tell him to frick off.
God is not a victim, no matter how central that idea is to christian theology. That cruxifiction, for instance. God is supposedly all-powerful, so he could have stopped it at any time, but chose not to. Do rape victims have that same luxary? That's not victimhood, that's a weird fetish. Why did he not send himself as an animal and get killed without controversy? Assuming he can't just change these rules and he ABSOLUTELY needed to spill his blood to redeem humanity from the unforgivable crime of stealing his property. No need to play 30+ years as a person. Better yet why not just change the rules? Face it, this is all a capeshit-tier fiction dreamt up by iron age schizos, like the thousands of other religions you would be spouting right now if you were born into them.
>If a family member called you up and said their car broke down on the highway and they need a ride home, would you ask for some sort of empirical proof and evidence?
Yes.
>If God offered concrete scientific proof of himself then the importance of belief and trust would be nullified
So should the disciples not be allowed into heaven? Witnessing God's miracles directly is kind of cheating
This
>You have to believe on faith, but trust me, this other dude was skeptical too but saw everything and even touched his wounds. No, you don't get to do that, cause, um . . . you just don't want to believe, you wouldn't accept any proof!
Who could possibly benefit from asking people to believe in something without evidence, no matter what?
I WONDER WHO
Good? Room for doubt in unnecesary
Then he would have to punish people more severely for their sins.
At least now people can claim ignorance, such as in Atheist China or the USSR.
>They were huge Peter, and they had feathers.
>implying jesus was a feathergay
>When dealing with other races, Peter, one should employ critical race theory.
Large dinosaurs tended to not have feathers since it made it more difficult to release body heat
Similar to how large mammals have sparse amounts of hair
>everyone, jerusalem is going to be besieged
Oh wait that one happened
might as well have predicted the sun going up
>written after the siege
Hmm...
It's prophecy from the OT.
The devil also had this scientific knowledge, he could use it to makw a cult following.
This is why God does not appeal to scientific knowledge - so as to not set a precedent for deceivers
The OT also prophesised Tyre would be destroyed which never happened. Usually predicting that a city will eventually be "destroyed" to some extent is just a really safe bet.
>This is why God does not appeal to scientific knowledge - so as to not set a precedent for deceivers
But the devil can also perform magic tricks, so making that the basis for God's proof doesn't work very well either
Yes, we shouldnt fall for magic tricks like the Egyptian sorcerors had.
We have a greater basis on which our faith relies - Jesus fulfills many OT prophecies, such as appearing before the Temple destruction ("seventy sevens" after being built, Daniel 9), and the fact that God said there would always be a king from David's line (Jesus being alive in heaven now).
>they will eventually expand and then contract into a form so dense that even light cannot escape its attractive force.
black holes are still not concretely supported by scientific observation, it's entirely plausible that they don't even exist
what's next, there's no physical evidence of the battle of stalingrad?
Atheists would simply claim He was an alien.
>Thousands of years later
>"Wow this Jesus guy sure was smart. He could have been a doctor or engineer."
>Peter, the creator has made our material form out of a tiny point-like substance. The smallest forms of the material form itself loses definition of defined location and velocity. This won't make much sense to you but mark my words carefully, they will prove my undeniable divinity to the entire world one day.
Whoops, actually Joshua told he sun to stand still instead of the earth
>Peter, I will give you proof of God's existence but you will have to wait 2000 years to confirm it