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IOW, God does not exist.
It means that anything labelled "supernatural" falls into one of two categories:
No, even with so-called "Manifestations," your God is still indistinguishable from one that doesn't exist, IMO.
Claims can either be true or false.
Did any of these establish religions and civilizations?
Some false messengers only make claims but the true Messengers establish religions and civilizations.
Absolute Proof is a very “strong word” …. But if you look at the cosmos with a telescope and you see a dust cloud organized such that they say “hey you guys from “religious forums” , I am God and I exist. That would be enough to convince any reasonable person.
Not as a physical entity.
They are part of reality of they exist.
Do we have historical documents confirming that Jesus rise from the dead?
Well, that again is complicated.
How could anyone ever prove that? Think about it.
you tell me. You claim it is evidence that your girl with an impossible name met God.
That is simple to explain. What humans think is best for them is not always what God thinks is best but if God is all-knowing God knows more than we do about what is best for us, since no human is all-knowing.So would this logic apply to how God have design how things are to be done here on Earth as well? Shouldn't we assume that God being all-knowing also have made things the best way possible, of all the available options? And if that is the case, why are humans then complaining, we should happy when only 99 people die and that God made sure that it weren't 100.
This logic doesn't work in my opinion. For exactly the same reason as we have talked about before, when it comes to animal suffering, God must have created it the best possible way, so people should stop worrying or complaining about it, because it is the absolute best it can ever be.
It's like a person that have gotten the absolutely best ice cream in the world, ever possible, it simply can't be any better and they know it. Yet they still complain about it. It makes no sense, when ice cream can't be any better than it already is, EVER!!
That is simple to explain. God allows free will and people choose to cling to their religions and as long as that is the case there will be conflict. More than one religion contains truth, but only one religion has the latest truth, and only one religion can bring all the older religions together because only one religion has that as its goal. That religion is the Baha'i Faith.
Baha'is believe that religion has always existed because God has always sent Prophets and Messengers, ever since humans evolved as humans.
Why not? Please define “historical document” and explain why isn’t the bible (gosples acts and paul) a historical document
It is evidence but it is not proof although it is proof to be because I have proven it to myself by looking at ALL the other evidence.
I also showed you what I consider the most obvious evidence: The Works of Bahá'u'lláh
Well, yes, that is what those middle men say.I would say the same if I were applying for a job as prophet. How else would they sell their made up stuff, otherwise? Or do you have some a-priori evidence that they have, indeed a physical and spiritual nature? I wonder how you can provide that without begging the question.
The resurrection stories are not reliable evidence of a resurrection
A historical document would be a document written by historians who were unbiased, not a document that was written by religious believers who are biased.
Not all history, but the Bible is not verifiable history.
Baha'u'llah was not trying to "sell" anything and He did not care if anyone believed Him, as all He did was for the sake of God. I believe Him because it makes sense. Why would He suffer unimaginable hardship, imprisonment, exile and banishment from place to place for 40 years when He was born into wealth and could have instead been a high official in the Persian government? That is part of the evidence but not all of it.
I am not begging the question because I am not making an argument. I just have a religious belief, and religious beliefs cannot be proven with arguments.
The fact that Baha'u'llah predicted many events that later came to pass proves to me that He could see into the future, so He had prophetic powers. A list of 30 of these predictions and how they came to pass are delineated in this book: The Challenge of Baha'u'llah
Well, then show to me how those prophets had a spiritual component, as you claimed. I hope you are not telling me that they had a spiritual mind so that they could meet God, and them meeting god is evidence they had a spiritual mind.
I told you that nobody ever meets God. Their souls get spiritual powers in the spiritual world, before they are born into this world, as that is how that can understand God.
That shows what Baha'u'llah, who was a man and not a girl, said about not being interested in selling anything.
There is no such evidence, as I said before. It is a faith-based belief.
Usual question... What exactly did he reveal with Jesus? What exactly were the people in that day able to understand? 'Cause according to what you tell me, the early Christians got most all of it wrong?
And how does it work? Do you know that they understood God because of their spiritual powers, or they had spiritual powers because they understood God? Again, I am not sure how you cam solve that without begging the question.
Oh, sorry. I thought it was a girl. Sounded like a girl's name to me.
Of course. Like all the others. You need to have faith that they did not make everything up. What else have you got?