Tiberius
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How is that related to whether I would have found dirt by now?
Your argument was that since you had not personally found any dirt in 50 years, there was no dirt to be found. Yet other people have found things in your faith that they consider flaws. However, you discard those claims because you yourself have not found anything that you personally consider to be a flaw.
However, when I point out that people have spent much longer than 50 years as Christians and not found any dirt, you ignore it and decide it doesn't count. And when they find flaws in your faith, you again decide that it doesn't count, although when you find flaws in Christianity, all of a sudden, that's reason enough to consider Christianity flawed.
In other words, you are displaying a massive double standard.
I do not know what you mean. What does that have to do with the resurrection stories?
It's not the resurrection stories, but the very existence of Jesus (without whom, the resurrection stories are meaningless).
The Bible makes two claims regarding the birth of Jesus. It happened during the reign of Herod (as shown by Matthew 2:1). The Bible also claims that Mary and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem because of a census for taxation purposes, and that this happened while Quirinus was governor of Syria (Luke 2:1-2).
In other words, Jesus was born when Herod was the king AND when Quirinus was the governor of Syria.
However, Herod had died nine years earlier! Quirinus was never governor when Herod was King, and yet the Bible says that he was, and that this is when Jesus was born.
It is not arbitrary at all. God does nothing on a whim. God knows what to do and does it.
Yes, it is arbitrary, because God is deciding it for himself, not using some external frame of reference.
I have to refer to the Bible to show that prophecies were fulfilled by Baha'u'llah if Christians ask, because the Bible is what they rely upon.
Funnily enough, just about every other religion stands on its own feet and does't have to resort to cherry-picking from the holy texts of other faiths.
Demonstrate what? Sorry, I lost track.
Dude, it wasn't that far back. If you can't actually go and read over previous posts, then you're extremely lazy.
Demonstrate that the justification of religious beliefs are based on logical fallacies.
Do you mean this?
"Because you are a human with a lower material nature and a higher spiritual nature you can choose to be benevolent or malevolent. God by contrast cannot choose. God is always benevolent since God is benevolent by nature and God is unchanging."
God’s part in it is that He created a world where people will suffer, some much more than others, but other than creating the world the way it is God has no part in our suffering, so God does not do anything to anyone.
No, I meant the part where you said, in response to me talking about someone causing suffering to another, "A murderer might do that to a victim but God does not do it to anyone."
You literally claimed God does not do it to anyone.