It was "ad hoc after the fact" that the Jews were "... scattered to many nations, persecuted in each, returned to Israel at a specific calendar date [translating to 1948 AD]..." (!)
Make up your mind, please, was it a self-fulfilling prophecy to return in '48 or "ad hoc after the fact"?
Blind faith is gross to us both--accepting things without evidence.
Biblical faith is trust based on disclosed evidence, that's the precise wording here in Hebrews 11: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not [yet] seen.
Sure! Can you address any of my other points, first?
"While overcoming handed chirality, entropy, hitting zillion-to-1 combinations of acids/proteins, while making theoretical replicating RNA that does not exist now in any species, etc."
Where were they absolved of traditional observance? Paul went to Rome after rushing back to Jerusalem to take a vow while observing a high holy day.
As important or even more important, I find your claim bizarre that these people risked martyrdom for "extreme reform which absolved them of...
Explain their schismatic agenda in the context of persecution from both Rome and the Jewish people down to friends and family and exclusion from Jewish life.
I'd love for you to address the fact stated, too. Apes and people have millions of genetic differences, which speaks against the given numbers for genetic mutations being favorable, genetic drift and etc.
My faith is based on evidence--again you've pigeon holed what evidence IS.
Israel has fulfilled 60 prophecies--VISIBLY since 1948 AD--given 2,500 years ago. The Bible is prescient, which is supernatural by any reckoning.
While overcoming handed chirality, entropy, hitting zillion-to-1 combinations of acids/proteins, while making theoretical replicating RNA that does not exist now in any species, etc.
" . . . dating back from before Jesus was born . . . "
Absolute nonsense, there are hundreds of articles readily available at the touch of your fingertips and Google that the most ancient Jewish sources saw the prophecies as I see them. For example, THE ENTIRE SEPTUAGINT AS WRITTEN BY OUR...
Again you are claiming omniscience--you gave bounds for which there MIGHT be evidence of a God and then claim they are nowhere in human history or anywhere in the universe.
You speak without knowledge of who I am--at my core.
"You'd help yourself a bit if you could learn that people are apes, or at the least that that is the scientific position."
My dad taught gifted high school students and I had/have hyperlexia, so I was reading high school/college level...
Your first point stretches all credulity, that THOUSANDS of Bible expositors, working for two millennia, diligently studying Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek (including with rabbinical aid) are ALL subscribing to authority without care.
Useless to respond to the rest of what you wrote since your...
The government of Heaven IS on His shoulders (NT) AND Messiah will shoulder the government when He reigns for the Millennium (Tanakh).
Of course, there are hundreds more prophecies we can look at.
Hard for me to take you seriously since you've claimed omniscience:
"But while we can show evidence or prove that humans are actually physical beings that design and create, there are no evidence that God, Creator or Designer are real."