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The Christian faith is anything but arbitrary. It is predicated on the Bible being true, and the Bible is a collection of documents, many of which are grounded
by notdonspaulding 11y ago
The Christian faith is anything but arbitrary. It is predicated on the Bible being true, and the Bible is a collection of documents, many of which are grounded in specific points of both space and time.
In particular, the factual claims about Christ, his life, his death, his resurrection are central to any evangelical Christian's faith. Disprove them and it's game over for Christianity. Paul says as much in his letter to the early church in Corinth [0]. Beyond factual claims about Christ, there are many other sections of the Bible which would become fatal to the central Christian message were they proven false. (The flood, the plagues in Egypt, the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt, the prophecies in Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah, etc.)[1].
Start with any one of them and offer a credible disproof and you can go down in the history books as the person responsible for dismantling the arbitrary Christian faith.
[0]: https://www.bible.com/bible/59/1co.15:14-19 https://www.bible.com/bible/59/1co.15:14-19
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_messianic_prophecy#Verses_Christians_cite_as_fulfilled_prophecies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_messianic_prophecy#V...
- lovemenot 11y agoThis will go nowhere. Any argument I make will likely be skewered on interpretations of "credible" or on which parts of the Bible you choose to defend or which parts should be taken literally and which figuratively. Anyway, let's try starting at one of the most obvious. I understand the Bible says the world was created in 7 days. Has that been credibly disproven yet?