State Farm Syndrome Derail:Miracles.

[Bisto]

...But thank you for admitting there is nothing the unbiased panel could say that would convince you of the resurrection. It is exactly what Adrift said a long time ago. You invent some mythical expert panel that could never exist and set the bar so high that you would never accept any conclusion other than "we don't know" or "it was natural" - all merely to appear open minded while handwaving away any arguments or evidence for miracles.

"Oh sure I would believe in miracles but first it would take an unbiased expert panel to prove it was real" and then of course there is nothing this panel could do or say to convince you.

busted.

If "I don't know what happened" was truly his stance, he might just go agnostic. Isn't that what Mr. Ehrman does? (IIRC. I may be wrong here)

Yet behold Gary, anti-miraculous in all his naturalistic glory(?).

[Adrift]

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Where was this?

http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...l=1#post311107

I never claimed that any moral stance is "true". I only claimed that the modern, Western, moral stance...is!

The current, Western moral stance exists, like it or not, whether true or false in your worldview.

There is no "true" morality...only a morality that you personally choose to live by, whether than be the current morality of your "herd" or that of a minority in the herd, or your own morality. However, if whatever non-majority morality you choose to conduct your behavior within is too far outside the norms of morality of the herd, you just might find yourself expelled...or eliminated.

[Sparko]

I'd say that was an easy call, but did any of us expect more?

nope. Gary likes to sound egalitarian and propose some method that would convince him, but he always has an out. Nothing will convince him. If Jesus himself appeared to Gary and did any miracle he asked for, he would claim it was just a prank or he was secretly drugged

[DesertBerean]

Group hysteria. No, I don't believe it and neither do the majority of non-charismatic Protestants. (Yes, I have polled them all!)

[Leonhard]

It
is
a
superstition, folks!

Try not to write by speaking the words, or writing them as if people hear a voice in their head saying this. I don't, but I get that's the intention you want. All it does, is make for ugly editing. The same goes with the all cap words.

Please refrain from these things.

[Gary]

Try not to write by speaking the words, or writing them as if people hear a voice in their head saying this. I don't, but I get that's the intention you want. All it does, is make for ugly editing. The same goes with the all cap words.

Please refrain from these things.

No.

[JonathanL]

No.

You're quite the rebel, aren't you?