Annsan_In_Him
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If a swimmer who has swum the English Channel says to you, "I will now swim two lengths at your local swimming pool", would you doubt him?
If a swimmer who has swum two lengths at your local swimming pool says, "I will now swim the English Channel", you would doubt him!
That's an example of arguing from the greater to the lesser in the first case; of trying to argue from the lesser to the greater in the second case.
So with God. He has already demonstrated His power in creating the universe and guarantees believers resurrection from the dead to glory with Christ in already having resurrected Christ. What is there to doubt?
This is not an argument for the existence of God. All people who did reasonably well at comprehension in English classes will realise that. This is taking God's reality on the basis of His own claims and asking whether God's claims are based on arguing from the greater to the lesser, and, hence, if we should doubt them or not.
Would all the first set of answerers like to have another go now?
If a swimmer who has swum two lengths at your local swimming pool says, "I will now swim the English Channel", you would doubt him!
That's an example of arguing from the greater to the lesser in the first case; of trying to argue from the lesser to the greater in the second case.
So with God. He has already demonstrated His power in creating the universe and guarantees believers resurrection from the dead to glory with Christ in already having resurrected Christ. What is there to doubt?
This is not an argument for the existence of God. All people who did reasonably well at comprehension in English classes will realise that. This is taking God's reality on the basis of His own claims and asking whether God's claims are based on arguing from the greater to the lesser, and, hence, if we should doubt them or not.
Would all the first set of answerers like to have another go now?