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We're talking acceptible in court physical proof as evidence that the person, or people, making their claims could prove that divine intervention through a supreme deity somehow crafted or created existence, provides punishment and rewards and is the only means towards everlasting life.
Saying there is a Dead Sea and the Dead Sea was there during the time of Christ does not validate claims of divinity. We all agree there was a man named Jesus. There was physical proof of this. But provable physical evidence of divine linkage?
Saying there were countless witnesses who heard Mohamad speak only validates the existance of Mohamad as a human. We accept that there was a man named Mohamad who made claims two thousand years ago. Mohamad was very much real, but can anyone validate his claims?
Do we have actual acceptible in court proof to our core beliefs?
Update:A rainbow is a rainbow, but it is not proof that God flooded the entire earth.
Many people have predicted things that came true in the future, including Da Vinci and H.G. Wells. And both were non-Christians. Predictions that come true are not validations to anything except the wisdom to foresee possible events occuring in the future.
There was a man named Jesus who lived and preached in the Holy Land. The recorded on paper events of His time (like today's newspapers) so noted his life as a minor priest and teacher. Jesus was very much a real person.
Update 3:Someone Who Cares, the scripture you quote is not valid, physical evidence of anything except that someone wrote these words and others have accepted them as some kind of proof. They are not proof.
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None of the above!
Mohammad wasn't 2K years ago. And physical proof of Jesus? The rest I have no problem with including your beliefs. They're just not mine.
If non-divine evidence is considered proof of the divine then there are religions that are much more provable. By that logic it is more likely that I am the one true god since I am here and now and can prove my existence more throughly than any deity in any religion that has ever existed.
I will in fact pit my abilities against those of any deity anyone chooses.
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I would only say in response to be cautious what you call 'physical proof' of existence. What you're referring to is at best third-hand accounts. By that standard there is as much or more proof of any number of deities.
None, of course. Because it's a trick question. No religion can offer "real physical evidence" to validate its "core beliefs," because spiritual life does not focus on empirically verifiable aspects of our experience. Rather, issues of our own sense of meaning in the Universe and integrity as spiritual beings is the proper focus of religious experience regardless of the faith tradition matrix from which that experience emerges. No religion does or could present legally cognizable evidence of its central teachings, for these are rooted in psychological, not physical, realities.
Judeo-Christianity- The God of the Bible is the one God you would logically infer as existing based on the external evidence. It is a matter of faith to believe that the infinite-personal-creator that is there actually revealed Himself in the words of the Bible. If there is an infinite-personal-creator then it would not be illogical to infer that historically this Deity would interact with mankind. This is what we find. A historic record with personal propositions to mankind about reality and our condition.
So there is logical inference and rational integrity to the Judeo-Christian position which gives validity and credibility for faith, more so, than any other belief system that claims to be true about reality and not just mysticism.
Tawaen's totally right. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the only one that can PROVE that correlation=causation. Just look at the not-so-pretty excel graph! That's all the proof you could ever need. And c'mon, heaven has stripper factories and beer volcanoes! What's not to love?
There is an old saying. "If you want to know what is hidden, see what is before your eyes."
Next time you know you had your car keys. And you search and search and search and can't find them. And then you look again and they are right there in plain sight. Don't ignore what you just experienced. Your spiritual, (lifeforms on other dimensions), helpers, letting you know they are around.
Of course, seeing is not believing is it?
Mormonism is Christianity. For correction.
1 Corinthians 2
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he eknow them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 1
20 Where is the wise? where is the ascribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
it depends .. do u have actual acceptable proof that u love ur family ... no ... some things are from the inside out of the individual and are acceptable to them ..
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! Look at the graph!
RAmen!
religion is Spiritual fraud; there will never be evidence to validate any religion's core beliefs. It's pathetic that a lot of people can't understand this and continues to believe in religion's BS, lies and deceptions.