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That's your miracle?
Do you understand that "miracle" is often used as a euphemism for a rare, unexpected, fortunate event? Someone saying "it's a miracle!" doesn't necessarily mean that they believe that God must have caused it directly.
No ordering/directing/controlling from God of our ideas, cultures, inventions as far as I know -- God has given us real autonomy, genuine 'free will'. A full freedom. He calls to us to do what is good -- "love your neighbor as yourself" (as if your own self!) -- but we tend to turn to our own ways, like prejudices for instance, or outright harms to others for seeming gain, though still we have that occasional turning towards His ways of "In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you." Which is a step towards Him.
If all a miracle is to you is a thing you've decided to assume was done by God, why would you think that your "miracles" should be proof to someone else?
If we have no idea what real thing is intended to be denoted by the word "God" then when we say "God" (meaning a non-imaginary god, a god with objective existence) we have no idea what we're talking about.
Not in our present state of knowledge; but we know why we can't (namely that the idea of the Big Bang includes a singularity, that is, the compression of all the matter and energy in the universe into a staggeringly tiny space, so hot that it becomes a barrier to the passing of information from any hypothetical earlier to our universe). If the afterlife is real, why can't we observe it?
I see no parallel. The world external to the self is reality, nature, the realm of the physical sciences. Within the self, any concept without a counterpart in that world exists only as a concept or thing imagined in that particular brain.
As I said, since we don't know what (if any) real thing we intend to denote when we say "God", there's nothing real to remove from the equation.
Loving your neighbors, does not exclude hating who is not your neighbor.
Now, I say this as a theist, but the two don't follow. Making someone see does not compare with proving we will be safe in the afterlife, especially when God brags that we should fear Him because unlike others, He can kill souls. His inability to avoid bragging reveals He can off you at any time and His promise of eternal safety is a lie.
Yeah. I don't see FearGod suddenly worshiping Ra or whatever because the Egyptian priests also did miracles.
Even Jesus chides others for focusing on miracles instead of just living.
Older texts reveal it can't be El or Yahweh because They stem from the universe sorta. El is like Cronus, having been born when Earth mated with the Sky. Yahweh is either Son or Son in Law of El, meaning He, too, was born.
God in the bible says He hates. Does that invalidate His claim, then?
"Why would I believe it if I knew it was fake?"
How to differentiate an unseen force from gravity or the wind?
Never played with magnets and iron filings?
Tricks are tricks, though. It doesn't matter who's doing it.
The only thing I'd be interested in is how it was done, since I know other creatures can regenerate. It would just seem to me like someone did some genetic tinkering.
I guess hypocrisy isn't excluded from god concepts.
Likely a dying universe. History can be cyclical.
There has to be a method, otherwise it wouldn't be done.
That's what religious leaders told people when asked to define God.
Yes. Visible light is an electromagnic wave.
Indeed. Reading about ancient people eating lunch won't fill your belly.
The totality of the signals going off in your brain. For the plant world and creatures without brains, maybe there are similar setups, but consciousness is physical because with electromagnetic waves, chemicals, suggestion, etc, I can play a brain like a fiddle.
Yeah. I was a nurse for ten years. I LOVE picking apart medical miracle stories.
Do you listen to the Hovinds? I only ask this because they always whine about how atheists think that humans came from rocks (which is silly, since YEC's think humans came from dirt, which is COMPLETELY different). Anyway, we didn't come from rocks. Or dirt. Our species came from previous related species, on back until you get to some floating amino acids somewhere. It's about chemistry and how atoms can merge to form molecules and how molecules can merge with other molecules and eventually you get amino acids then RNA and then DNA, etc.
Polytheists, though, can have multiple creator gods. Some create this. Some create that. It's not an objective law of nature there can only be one.
Magic, IIRC, is about planning circumstances. Why do spells if you don't want reality to go your way?
There's the rub, though. How can you determine if they are?
A lot of people were products of unplanned circumstances, especially if they lacked good sex education.
This is a planner shocked some kids ate a fruit. If there was a planner like in the bible, He isn't very good at it. He didn't even realize Adam would need a human female to reproduce until much later.
I was watching a Religion for Breakfast video on youtube where they show Jesus in art where he is clearly waving a magic wand to do his miracles. FYI.
What do you mean by miracle?
Turns out his example wasn't even that much of a miracle story; it was just a video on an aggregator site about someone who survived serious burns. The headline had the word "miracle" in it, which was apparently all the evidence @FearGod needed.
and of that, only a very narrow bandwidth
I'm sure it's all true.
Wouldn't it be nice if a demonstrably miraculous medical healing occurred?