THE WORD OF GOD IS CHRISTIANITY RATIONAL?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. (John 1:1–4)

Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name. (John 20:30–31)

“The proportion of words virtually accepted on all hands as raised above doubt is very great, not less, on a rough computation, than seven-eights of the whole. The remaining eights therefore, formed in great part by changes of order and other comparative trivialities, constitutes the whole area of criticism…the amount of what can in any sense be called substantial variation is but a small fraction of the residuary variation, and can hardly form more than a thousandth part of the entire text” (The New Testament in the Original Greek pgs. 2-3 Westcott and Hort)

Begging the Question (circular argumentation)- this is the idea of assuming the very thing that you are attempting to prove Special Pleading - occurs when one disputant holds the other to a standard that he himself is not willing to meet. The law of non-contradiction - something cannot be true and not true in the same context

“to develop and propagate a social philosophy in which humankind is central and must itself be the source of strength, progress, and ideals for the well-being and happiness of humanity” ( purposes) purposeshttp:// purposes “Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a life-style and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.” (ibid)

Begging the Question (circular argumentation)- this is the idea of assuming the very thing that you are attempting to prove Special Pleading - occurs when one disputant holds the other to a standard that he himself is not willing to meet. The law of non-contradiction - something cannot be true and not true in the same context Ad hominem argumentation - latin for “to the man, or to the person” this is actually a distraction away from the logic of an argument and towards the individual making the argument

Plato B.C. Earliest Copy 900 A.D. (1000 years) Number of Copies - 10

Aristotle B.C. Earliest Copy 1100 A.D. (1400 years) Number of Copies - 5 (of any work)

Sophocles B.C. Earliest Copy 1000 A.D. (1400 years) Number of Copies - 100

New Testament A.D. Earliest Copy 125 A.D. (25 years) Number of Copies - 24,000 (of any work)

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined...Nothing is esteemed a miracle if it ever happens in the common course of nature...There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appellation.” (Hume David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding pg. 126,127 )

“Now of course we must agree with Hume that if there is absolutely ‘uniform experience against miracles, if in other words they have never happened, why then thy never have. Unfortunately, we know the experience against them to be uniform only if we know that all the reports of them are false. And we can know all the reports of them to be false only if we know already that miracles have never occurred. In fact, we are arguing in a circle.” (C.S. Lewis, Miracles pg. 105)

Water into Wine Healing the Nobleman’s Son Walking on Water Healing the Man Born Blind Raising Lazarus