Your belief is a priori because you have to first believe in a god, to believe that what was written in the bible is true.
Any historical analysis that is going to be done has to start with the assumption that the laws that govern the universe (i.e. the inverse square law of gravity or the second law of thermodynamics) applied then and were constant as they are today, because that is something that cannot be proven. It extends then, that to believe that these laws were suspended, as was written (walking on water, changing water to wine, virgin birth, resurrection, etc.), you have to have an a priori belief that that could happen. This belief cannot be substantiated rationally. By extension, the simple fact that there are miracles in the story, makes it unhistorical. Sure it could be believed, but you'd have no reason.
Therefore, if that belief is required to be held by the sky daddy, it is an unreasonable requirement, because it asks one to suspend their rational minds to hold it.
"If it can't be proven, your belief that Jesus was the same as everyone else is based on faith as well." I don't have a "belief" that Jesus was the same as everyone else. I lack a belief that he was different. The responsibility is on you to say why you believe something, not on me to say why I don't. I lack a belief in the tooth fairy because I have no reason to believe one exists. That doesn't mean one doesn't exist, just that before I believe it, I need evidence.
The point of faith is that you don't have enough evidence. Otherwise you'd just call it rationally justified belief. Faith is the suspension of your rational mind which your system of belief requires.
Any historical analysis that is going to be done has to start with the assumption that the laws that govern the universe (i.e. the inverse square law of gravity or the second law of thermodynamics) applied then and were constant as they are today, because that is something that cannot be proven. It extends then, that to believe that these laws were suspended, as was written (walking on water, changing water to wine, virgin birth, resurrection, etc.), you have to have an a priori belief that that could happen. This belief cannot be substantiated rationally. By extension, the simple fact that there are miracles in the story, makes it unhistorical. Sure it could be believed, but you'd have no reason.
Therefore, if that belief is required to be held by the sky daddy, it is an unreasonable requirement, because it asks one to suspend their rational minds to hold it.
"If it can't be proven, your belief that Jesus was the same as everyone else is based on faith as well."
I don't have a "belief" that Jesus was the same as everyone else. I lack a belief that he was different. The responsibility is on you to say why you believe something, not on me to say why I don't. I lack a belief in the tooth fairy because I have no reason to believe one exists. That doesn't mean one doesn't exist, just that before I believe it, I need evidence.
The point of faith is that you don't have enough evidence. Otherwise you'd just call it rationally justified belief. Faith is the suspension of your rational mind which your system of belief requires.
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