Timeline for What logical preconditions would guarantee that a book is of divine origin?
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| Feb 10, 2015 at 7:30 | comment | added | Guill | havoc, I believe you are missing Einer's point. Can you establish (prove) the date when Isaiah 44:28 was written? If it was written after Cyrus was king, then it looses its credibility. | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | havoc | A Philosophers "probability" is self defined as "what will probably happen exactly when I need that particular something to happen. All "probabilities" have exactly the same chance of "happening;" i.e., fifty/fifty/ it will or it won't. One's particular philosophy based on a particular need will not change that. | |
| Oct 18, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Einer | I can lie. Already knowing what happened, I can pretend that somebody foretold it. The probability that somebody lies is greater than the probability that someone/something accurately foretells something. The probability that someone makes an incredible story up is always greater than the probability that something incredible happened. Hume wrote about this. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | havoc | How can you equate pretestimony 200 years ahead of the fact, with an attempt to "make it up as you go" 7 hours after the fact? It appears you have completely missed the significance of my point. Several generations of prehistory is not equivalent to several minutes of retrohistory. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 17:05 | comment | added | Einer | And if I tell you, that my great-great-great Grandma already knew, that I will comment on someone named "havoc"? My point is: You didn't believe my story - that's only rational: Telling something that is hard to believe, doesn't increase the credibility of a source. It makes it more irrational to believe it. And the question was, what makes it rational to believe, that a book was written or inspired by a deity. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 14:38 | comment | added | havoc | To make up a story on the spot is not remotely like pretestimony. If yesterday, you had said "Tomorrow I will comment on a post written by someone named "havoc" I would possibly be impressed. Not convinced as coincidence can still account for such in the matter of one day; but 200 years is not coincidence, especially when God named Cyrus before even the parents of Cyrus were born; to prename by 200 years requires either deity or family conspiracy. | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 13:03 | comment | added | Einer | Welcome to philosophy.se! Yesterday I met someone, who told me, that today I will comment on a post of someone named "havoc". Do you believe, he is god? No? Why not? It was pretestimony, and you see his story written right here! If you are rational, you don't believe my story! So what could convince a rational person, that a book was written or inspired by god? | |
| Oct 17, 2014 at 12:37 | history | edited | havoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 12:26 | history | edited | havoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 12:15 | history | answered | havoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |