It's rich you criticising 2,000-year-old thought: it's more than you are capable of, still dealing in "fairy" and "magic" language!
People who believe in an entity they can't define doing things they don't understand by means they can't explain are dealing in magic, are they not?
But the amount of healing accounted to God would suggest you can write the possibility of God existing off... Arrrh wait a minute... you are not interested in all the facts... You have selective issues about truth when it comes to proving if God exists... You ignore all the possibilities which suggest he does exist.. sticking fingers in ears and closing eyes just in case you may have to consider then and prove yourself wrong...
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Where do you get this idea from, that atheists try not to find this God you're always on about? If we thought there was the remotest chance that somewhere up above - only he knows where - lurks an all powerful entity that doesn't like being disbelieved and tortures unbelievers for all eternity, there isn't one of us who wouldn't be shaking in our boots in case we were for the high jump!
Did you read the posts on the this forum and others by atheists?
In truth what other answers could there be?
Have you got some? What keeps you from fearing God?
Many atheists have said that even if God could be proved it would make no difference to them or how they live their lives.
As with everything there is the odd exceptions. But as they only have to obey Christ to find the truth, surely the fact they do not, shows they do not want God to be real as in admitting and finding out if he is.. Some love the darkness too much. If only they could see they would be happier in the light...
We do not search for God in the same way you do not search for the wicked Fairy Queen!
We know the wicked fairy queens were made up but cannot be found throughout the world and in remotest areas, as the belief in God with man can. So no comparison and no instructions how to find those fairy queens as they don't exist. There is a way to find God but no one goes there unless they sincerely want to find him and do.
Do you stick your fingers in your ears and close your eyes in case you're proved wrong about her? Of course you don't because you think she, like you, is away with the fairies!
Irrelevant, nothing in common with God and no one needs to pretend or avoid belief, when it doesn't exist. But God, he does exist but the contention is you cannot find him because your thinking is clearly all wrong. No one with understanding of God and religion would compare the belief to a wicked fairy queen.
We also look on the book that you repeatedly quote to us in great big capitals, in the same way you look on the big book of Spiderman, because we see it as just as much fiction!
No comparison... Spiderman is a story... The bible is a way of life and pathway to God... Till you can tell the difference then you are blind and your mind dead for all intents and purposes. We see how your error. The real problem is you cannot identify it for yourself.
Please try arguing from a reality point of view instead of the fantasy POV you've got in the habit of doing.
You are the one arguing from the fantasy point of view comparing Spiderman to God.
Clearly Spiderman the work of one man about a fictional character.
Known to be just that. The bible the writings of many men all knowing the same person and inspired by one Spirit. Yet all alarmingly knowing and representing the same...
Nah! Your wishful thinking and transfer of your own fictional beliefs are clearly refuted in that we can see your error, and know the difference between manmade fiction by one man in comparison to the truth of many through one Spirit about one God.
Gods words come to pass... I never seen Spiderman being real anywhere outside the fiction you create...