A recent post on Debunking Christianity delves into the concept of faith. Faith vs. trust:
Here’s an interesting bit:
Look, Christians, you want to win the debate? Every time? The format is simple. The place is easily determined. Offer to hold the debate at the City Morgue. Allow the non-believer to go first. Who cares what the topic is—who cares what the non-believer says? It is all foolishness in comparison to what is about to occur. (1 Cor. 1:18-20) After the non-believer has run out of babble, your path is clear. Whip open a door (any one will do), peer at the dead body, and say a simple prayer “Let these people know that you are God. Arise and walk.†(1 Kings 18:36-37)
You have faith, right? Nothing is impossible? If you truly believed, you could literally move mountains. Nuts, you even have some evidence, since you believe the dead have come back to life in more than one instance. It is not as if you claim this is the first (or second or third or fourth) occurrence, right?
When that person comes back to life—you have won the debate. I have never seen any atheist, agnostic or naturalist that would be able to respond to this decisive demonstration of the plausibility of your belief. We simply have no answer for this tactic.
It is very interesting that the United States has the greatest concentration of fundamental and evangelical Christians the world has ever seen, and there hasn’t been one body brought back from the dead, no amputated limbs restored, no mountains moved–yet undeniable miracles seemed to happen all the time in the Bible (although recorded nowhere else.) But read Acts. Jesus wasn’t the only person to perform great miracles such as raising people from the dead in broad daylight in public. And he never said he was the only person who could do so. As examined at length in my post More of Why Won’t God Heal Amputees and on the site that inspired my post, faith alone is enough to move mountains according to Jesus. Anything you need done, will be done. Anything. And yet never since the Bible was written has there been any verifiable miracles (although the miracles in the Bible aren’t verifiable either.)
So why not? God saw fit 2000 years ago to have countless supernatural events occur to the masses and reveal his presence–why no longer? Why in a country of modern-day cathedrals and ends-justifies-the-means evangelism and faith healers (that seem to only cure unseen ailments with invisible symptoms), that there are no raised dead or restored limbs or moved mountains?
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