So, not evidence at all. If you can't verify it, it is worthless.
Spoken like a true atheist, but verifiable evidence does not exist for God since God can never be verified.
If God could be verified, the existence of God would be a fact, not a belief.
However, that certainly does not mean God does not exist, it only means you won't ever get what you want.
I've read Daniel - I already know there is no worthwhile, unambiguous prophecies in it.
Not the kind of specific prophecies you want, but Daniel does point to a date and what is going to happen on that date:
Daniel Chapter 12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
It was prophesied in Daniel 12 that the Book would be
sealed up until the time of the end,
meaning nobody would really understand it.
Note that Dan 12:13 says "at the end of the days.” This chapter is about what will happen at the time of the end, when Christ returns.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
The 2,300 years came in 1844 and the book was unsealed by Baha’u’llah. That math is explained in Some Answered Questions,
10: TRADITIONAL PROOFS EXEMPLIFIED FROM THE BOOK OF DANIEL
An analogy is not an argument. However, to run with it briefly, the problem is there are endless different people telling me to look in endless different rooms, and none of them are next door and easy to check in a few seconds.
Just because there are endless different people telling you to look in endless different rooms, that does not mean there is nothing in any of those rooms.
I never told you that it would be easy to check in a few seconds. Why should it be easy?
Humans with religious claims are two a penny, and "they are both divine and human" is just another -YAWN- religious claim amongst thousands.
That is correct, but logically speaking the fact that many religious claims are false does not prove all religious claims are false. That is the fallacy of hasty generalization, unless and until one has actually considered all the variables.
Hasty generalization is an
informal fallacy of
faulty generalization by reaching an
inductive generalization based on insufficient
evidence—essentially making a hasty conclusion without considering all of the variables.
Hasty generalization - Wikipedia
Hasty generalization usually follows this pattern:
- Religious claim a is false
- Religious claim b is false
- Religious claim c is false
- Religious claim d is false
- Religious claim e is false
- Religious claim f is false
- Religious claim g is false
Therefore, Religious claim h is false.
It is true that the world is false religious claims, but logically speaking that does not mean that
all religious claims are false.
And I've already told you why I won't. I won't play a silly game. Such a being would deserve no respect.
So what would earn your respect, a God that handed you a belief on a silver platter? I have to different Master's degrees and I did not expect anyone to hand those to me. I worked for years and years to earn them. How much more important it is to know the truth about God than anything that only pertains to this earthly life.
So, yet again we are left with nothing at all to distinguish your religious claims from the countless thousands of others.
There is plenty of evidence that distinguishes my religious claims from the countless thousands of others, not the least of which is that the evidence is verifiable.
It is self-evident that no god is communicating with everyone and it's only a religious claim that some god is doing so with 'messengers'. So the situation is indistinguishable from what we'd expect if no god existed.
It is a religious claim, but that does not mean it is false, since there is no reason to believe that all religious claims are false just because some religious claims are false, as noted above.
What a logical person would expect to see if God existed is one of two things:
1. God would communicate through an intermediary, what I refer to as a messenger, or
2. God would not communicate at all
Logically speaking, only a dimwitted god or one that wants to play silly games would make its message look exactly the same as all the other baseless religious claims in the world.
The message of Baha'u'llah does not look the same as the other messages and that is why I believe it came from God, the only reason.
And again, an omnipotent god could talk and write if it so wished.
That is patently absurd. Omnipotent does not mean 'can do anything,' it means all-powerful.
God can neither talk nor write because God is not a man. Only humans can talk and write.
That is precisely why God sends Messengers who can talk and write, since there is NO OTHER WAY for God to communicate to humans.
No, it's just another baseless, unevidenced, unargued religious claim. It is not logical, it's a blatant case of begging the question.
It is an evidenced and arguable religious claim and it is not begging the question since I do not assume the truth of the conclusion. Rather, the evidence supports the conclusion.