We see many miracles today
Speak for yourself, I haven't seen any real miracles.
so please explain what miracle you would like proof of, and what would prove it.
I'd like proof that a sincere person praying could walk around inside a fiery furnace unharmed when tied up and tossed into a fiery furnace such as was done by Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Old Testament, and the proof would be repeatability of the miracle.
In fact we have contrary evidence because God would not even save the sincere Jehovah's Witnesses from relatively minor burns induced by electric shock of a stun gun in Russia;
'Electrocuted' for being a Jehovah's Witness
Also, if a miracle takes place 2000, 4000, 6000, years ago, the persons that would provide the proof are those who did the miracle, and those who witnessed it.
Asking someone who lived centuries after the event to provide proof is similar to asking someone to prove that they ate lettuce last year this same time, which of course as you know, is ridiculous.
That is only true of minor miracles, major miracles such as flooding the entire surface of the earth or pulling two million slaves out of Egypt and wandering the dessert for 40 years should leave substantial evidence.
Also even if you couldn't prove that you actually ate lettuce, it falls within the realm of possibility - you could eat lettuce today to prove that it is possible to eat lettuce.
They demanded a sign from Jesus too. Did he give them? No. Why? The scriptures say, they were faithless.
That is just the sciptures making up excuses for Jesus inability to provide a sign.
So you extrapolating that these are fanciful claims is based on what?
Based on their non-repeatability, and based on the fact that the Gospel's miracle claims were written by Christian ministers, and as you so aptly put it, '"Christian" ministers lie all the time'.
The writers were not only honest. They wrote facts that were later proven to be true, to the critics dismay.
But you said above that miracles can't be proven later, 'Asking someone who lived centuries after the event to provide proof is... ...ridiculous'
So I ask you again, what miracles were later proven to be true?
I have heard the "experts" opinions. What of them? Others have opinions that differ to theirs, and even those that agree, can't agree. So what of it?
I think there is a much greater degree of agreement than what you appear to be implying here.
'Like the rest of the
New Testament, the four gospels were written in Greek.
[30] The
Gospel of Mark probably dates from c. AD 66–70,
[9] Matthew and
Luke around AD 85–90,
[10] and
John AD 90–110.
[11] Despite the traditional ascriptions, all four are anonymous and most scholars agree that none were written by eyewitnesses.
[12]'
Soource:
Gospel - Wikipedia
"Christian" ministers lie all the time. So what's new? What does that have to do with the Bible?
The authors of the Gospels where Christian ministers, and the authors of the Old Testament - the Jewish Scribes were not more honest than the Christian ministers as far as I can tell.
Huh? Not sure what this means.
Evidently. You said the Jews were wayward, a stiff necked lot, corrupt. All of that is attacking the source of the argument that Jesus was not a scriptural authority. It is ad-hominem. Even if the Jews were wayward stiffnecked corrupt people if they say the grass is green the grass is green. Likewise if they say that Jesus was not a scriptural authority it is true regardless of the source it came from.
Evidence please. The evidence shows something else.
No it doesn't, the vastly overwhelming majority of Jews who were learned in the scriptures did not and have not accepted Jesus. Whilst one would expect those alive in Jesus day and having to relinguish their power to Jesus would have motive to deny His scriptural authority, there is excellent money to be made as a Christian minister today, and the material motives are heavily in favour of conversion to Christianity. In spite of this learned and financially prosperous Jews continue to reject Jesus, which suggests that Jesus is not a scriptural authority in terms of the Old testament.
Do you see how it goes with evidence? Peple interpret it differently, and we cannot rule out bias in some cases. So where does that leave us, on this argument? Going anywhere?
Well those who as you so aptly put it "lie all the time." certainly have their bias for insisting Jesus was an Old Testament scriptural authority in spite of Jesus lack of success in gaining any authority from scripturally well informed financially well off Jews. But I'm open to correction, if you have a list of Jewish ministers who were well off prior to converting to the Jehovah's witnesses or any other branch of Christianity (and no messianic Jews and other non-Jews who take the name Jew incorrectly but fall under Christianity don't count)
I think words and their meaning are important...
Use of the verb “make” tells us that the production processes and the vehicle or clothing designs already existed. The verb “create” usually suggests newness or innovation. Generally, it means to produce something new or to bring something into existence.
Make or Create? - VOA Learning English
Ok, so since the origins of life have already allegedly been created by God the design already exists, so humans do not have to create life, they can simply make it
*** ad p. 1062 Life ***
The life of man and animals is dependent, first of all, on the life force started off initially in the first pair, and
secondarily on breath to sustain that life force. Biological science testifies to this fact. This is evident in their separation of the process of death into two classifications: Somatic or systemic death (sometimes called clinical death), which is the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs (the body as an organized unit is dead); and death of the tissues (sometimes termed biological death), the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. So even though the person is dead beyond all human help of resuscitation (somatic death), the life force still lingers in the cells of the body’s tissues until eventually every cell dies completely (death of the tissues).
So you are quoting a Jehovah's witness publication which claims cells etc have a "life force" and I'm presumably expected to take such circular reasoning as evidence?
"first self replicating"? You mean that myth you believe in.
I don't think it is a myth. Self replicating molecules have been observed;
'‘We are able to observe behaviour in not-yet-living systems of self-replicating molecules that start to show strong similarities with what we see in biology,’ says project coordinator Sijbren Otto, Professor of Systems Chemistry at the University of Groningen'
Source:
CORDIS | European Commission
Is it not logical that if there are self replicating molecules there could have been a first self replicating molecule?
In my opinion