"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." ~ Dan Barker
How do you know that this is true? By reason? How do you know that reason is a valid foundation for truth? By reason?
It's based on the nature of faith as a belief held without sufficient evidence....and proven by the countless contradictory beliefs and teachings that are based on faith, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc, all with their own divisions.
This is not evidence that faith is a reliable means of sorting fact from fiction or a means of discovery of the nature of the world, just the opposite. Each religion or theology clinging to their own faith while discouraging dissent and driving away questioning.
Just like you and your mob do here.
Well then, deny your claims...Danny boy said, "Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits."
Countless times, we've stated that there is more archaeological evidence for Jesus’ existence than for virtually any other figure from ancient history. There’s an abundance of corroborating archaeological evidence; a great amount of the people, cities, places, etc. of Jesus’ life and ministry are established in the archaeological record. But when it comes to Jesus specifically, the best evidence we have is from God the Bible.
Of course will object here, and your ilk will ALWAYS deny that God the Bible can never be used as evidence of Jesus.
