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Q: Does God exist?

How to Prove God to an Atheist: What is the Transcendental Argument for God? - David Patrick Harry
Questions to ponder: Do numbers exist? If so, how? Before or after the Big Bang? Is math invented or discovered? Would mathematical principles exist without humans to comprehend them? Since numbers don't have physical form, how do they "exist" without "proof"? Can anything be non-material and still exist?
Questions to ponder: If the universe is purely materialistic (deterministic), and we hypothetically could calculate with infinite precision the position of every particle from the time of the Big Bang and how they would all interact up to the present moment, then there is no free will. If there is no free will, then you would be unable to decide whether or not you adhere to "truth" if it exists. If your brain state operates on chemistry/physics alone, then "reason" either doesn't truly exist or doesn't correlate with "truth". If free will is a "illusion", then is "belief" real?

Q: If God is real, why do bad things happen?

Q: Did Jesus exist?

Q: Was Jesus crucified, dead, buried, and resurrected?

Q: Did Jesus claim to be God?

Q: Are the Gospels reliable historical documents?

If a hypothetical, reliable, historically rooted religious document were to exist and truly originate from a divine source, it would be reasonable to expect that it wasn't produced by just one individual in one particular place, at one particular time, and in one particular language. Instead, one might expect a collection of writings composed by dozens of authors from different professions, living in different places, addressing different audiences, written over the span of over a thousand years in multiple language. If such a document formed a coherent narrative grounded in real, verifiable historical events and contained prophecies recorded before the events they describe, then such a document would naturally draw some degree of credibility. If one were to imagine what a real divine text might look like if it existed, it is difficult to imagine a more compelling one than what was just described.
The Gospel According to St. Luke - Fr. Stephen DeYoung
Undesigned Coincidences - Testify
Is there any evidence for the historicity of the Bible? - Wes Huff
How the woman at Jesus's tomb help prove the resurrection - Sanctus

Q: Is there evidence of biblical prophecies that were written before the events they describe?

Q: Ok... but I wanna see something...

Q: Is Trinitarian theology a non-biblical 4th century innovation from the Council of Nicaea?

Doctrine & Practices

Potentially hot takes

Sin feels liberating, until one tries to stop it. Only then does one realize they are slave to it.
Scientific observational data is viewed in paradigmatic lenses
Historical events are viewed in paradigmatic lenses
We are not in a "post-history" world
"Human progress" is a one-dimensional illusion; we can regress in many areas while seemingly progressing in one. And by what standard is that one-dimensional progress anyway?
Questions about metaphysics should be left to philosophy, not science
There are no "neutral" worldviews in the negative sense. A lack of belief in one worldview is a postiive belief in another, or an incoherent worldview
The future of AI is model collapse, the decline of informational quality on the internet, erosion of digital privacy, and further growth of hyperreality (Baudrillard)
Time-tested heuristics > new-age optimization