I witnessed, on television, David Copperfield make a Boing 747 disappear into thin air.
I have seen Justin Willman float in midair.
The world witnessed Joe Biden get elected as POTUS in 2020.
The nation watched as a single deranged gunman killed JFK.
And then as another killed RFK.
I am a bit skeptical that any of these events actually happened as portrayed.
Doppelgangers, body doubles are easy when a conspiracy is 35 years in the making. And easier when recorders have centuries to perfect the telling of the story.
Just my humble opinion in answer to the OP. No attempt to convince anyone else.
So, is it correct that you are “choosing….not to believe in the biblical account of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection?”
You seem to explain away Jesus’ minisitry as a cavalcade of trickery and written falsehoods.
Or, will you say something like “God has failed to convince me?”
Can I choose to believe David Copperfield made a 747 disappear into the ether?
When I know the law of conservation of mass and energy?
Can I choose to believe Justin Willman can levitate simply with the power of his mind?
When I know the law of gravity and equal and opposite forces?
I can no more CHOOSE to believe YOUR God is real than you can choose to believe the sun is actually Opollo racing across the sky in a flaming horse drawn chariot.
You KNOW Apollo is a myth!
Well, you are indeed making a choice…. Do not be confused about that.
So, I am correct that you do not believe….. by you own choice …….based on your interpretation of evidence available… ….. that you …. after considering the evidence …. conclude that Jesus ….”My God” If you will…. Do not believe the biblical account of Jesus life, death and resurrection?
Can you look at the sky, and choose to believe that blue is actually scarlet?
Can you look at the sun and choose to believe it is actually a flaming chariot?
How can you even dream that such belief is a choice?
If you are making a choice, it is in behavior. Not in actual belief.
Sure, I could make a choice to behave as if I believed. Were the Inquisition rampant, I would have to pretend such or face the question, and burned at the stake.
But it would be hypocrisy.
