Why didn't he just 'create' a videocamera and allow the apostles to video tape the Crucifiction and resurection. Then the evidence would be irrifutable!
2007-01-29 04:31:22 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Truth already irrifutible - 66% of the world rejects Christianity. I would call Christianity, at the very least, refutible.
2007-01-29 04:36:29 · update #1
Uncle:
You say:"Your suggestion is based on "seeing is believing.' Such is not true.Researching is believing."
The appostles *SAW* Jesus and wrote down what they say, and that is why they *belived * in jesus. If no one *SAW* the resurrection, then there would be no Christianity.
2007-01-29 04:38:45 · update #2
Lion:
Hell yes! If your time machine showed me biblical events, then you win. Sign me up I might even become a man of the cloth!
2007-01-29 04:42:20 · update #3
because, then we would know the truth.
2007-01-29 04:36:11 · answer #1 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
you know what, even if God did create a video camera to video tape the crucifiction, today, someone would say something like, why use a videocamera, when God can just recreate the scene like it's a display show so people can come to pay and watch it over and over again.
The whole point of it is faith. Faith is what allows us to see and realize that the crucifiction is real we don't need a video tape. Faith is the foundation of all beliefs, it's personal. Faith is a choice and when we choose to believe that the crucifiction was real, we know it's real. Also there are research of cities, towns, events, proof of the noah's ark flood did exist in research, but still people don't believe.
2007-01-29 04:40:49 · answer #2 · answered by xboxman01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million/3 of 6 billion is two billion people. so as meaning that 2 billion people in the international settle for Christianity. i think of this is noticeably stable do no longer ya think of? So what, if i'm going to ask, are those "different" perception platforms? have they have been given 2 billion contributors? I doubt it. so which you're 2/3 is divided up among themselves. Why do no longer you study some Plato or Aristotle and get the basics down first, then start to attach yet somebody else's theological perception device.
2016-12-16 16:16:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something I think about, lets say that god is real and there was a second coming.
One day this guys comes up to you and says, "Hi, I am the second coming." He also has some apostles with him who tell you of all the wonderful miracles they have seen this guy do. However, he does absolutely nothing in your presense. He heals no one, he makes no wine from water, and the bread and fish are still in low quantities. No walking on water, no raising the dead, nothing that would indicate that this guy is what he says he is. He does not do it for reporters or for newspapers or for TV. He just refers you to his friends as witnesses to what he can do. All you have is his word and the word of his apostles. Would you believe him?
That is what the bible is demanding. Devotion to something that may not exist. Also, the bible is doing a really bad job of it because of its errors, inconsistencies, and bad messages. The bible has made more atheists than anything else has.
2007-01-29 04:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Answer me this, lets just say hypothetically, that mankind invented a Time machine or a time monitor, that allowed events in the past to be viewed on a monitor, and it was used to view the biblical events.
And in so doing, proved the existance of Christ, proved Noah's Flood, and proved the creation account in the book of Gen.
Would you believe it? let say the invention was infallable, and scientifically accurate and a fact, would you believe it?
Or is your refusal to accept God so blinded you that no matter what, you are not going to believe?
2007-01-29 04:39:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The concept of "crucifxion being the road to salvation" is probably the weirdest religious concept humanity has ever encountered in her entire history. History has proved that this concept was the most concept forced upon people to believe in by force.
Are you willing to believe that the Creator came in a human form and was tortured and crucified for his creation's sins?? This is very acceptable to the human logic. And what sin did mankind do in order to be cursed from God's mercy...the eating from a prohibited tree by the progenitor of mankind; without his offsprings doing any wrong???
I believe that if people were given the choice to whether believe in the concept of salvation through crucifixion; you'll find 99.99% of them rejecting it. Today most Christians believe in it as a form of identity and to be proud of their ancestors who bleieved in it... something cultural rather than logical,..eh??
2007-01-29 04:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And there would have been just as many skeptics about THAT as there are about the UFO videos and the 9/11 conspiracy video evidence.
People will believe what they choose to and deny what they choose to. There will always be those that will not believe regardless of the evidence presented because that is their choice. Period.
2007-01-29 04:36:24 · answer #7 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Faith is a gift of God that He alone bestows according to His own will and good pleasure for His glory.
Think of how many saw Christ's miraculous works, and heard miraculous things from His mouth and witnessed His crucifixion and yet did not believe.
Think of those who've read the Bible or been preached the Gospel and yet they reject it.
Regardless of any "irrefutable evidence" only those God chooses to hear,see and believe will hear, see and believe.
Jer.5:21
Hear this now, O foolish people,
Without understanding,
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not
Rom. 9:15-16
For He says to Moses "I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy."
2007-01-29 05:05:20 · answer #8 · answered by Hope 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Then nonbelievers would suggest it was doctored. Your suggested evidence would not prove nor disprove anything.
You already have personal accounts that you can read!
Either you get it or you don't, not all are supposed to. A tape would not change a single person. I'm sold, I don't need any more evidence.
reading your additional note: I think your reasoning is flawed.
2007-01-29 04:38:18 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Do you know how much videotape "evidence" there is of the loch ness monster, bigfoot, and UFOs?
True believers have evidence that is far more irrefutable than a video tape. If you have to ask...you wouldn't understand.
2007-01-29 04:40:23 · answer #10 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are called "humans", not puppets or pets. What would be the point in making us different from all the other animals if he has to lead us around by the nose?
Besides, seeing isn't believing. I see stuff on TV everyday that I don't believe.
2007-01-29 04:36:10 · answer #11 · answered by Shanna J 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋