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How is faith circular reasoning?
And forgive me for my use of "impossible" earlier, that's not my position.
"Highly improbable" is a way better qualifier.
Not going to edit it because it ruins the context.
Well, it is highly improbable, because only a few people have, either by this aforementioned person or himself. And it requires supernatural powers.
Right, and it's much more likely that some true stories about a great dude got exaggerated a little bit over 2000 years, and vanishingly less likely that magic is real.
But both are absolutely possible.
The Jesus we believe in was written about 2000 years ago. Our beliefs haven't changed.
You believe because you believe.
Then our belief in anything can be put to circular reasoning
Not exactly. Some things can be proven. But regarding things that happened thousands of years ago? Yeah that's just everyone's best guess and personal beliefs.
We can't prove that anne frank existed though. Those videos of her could have been an actress. The story could have been an elaborate rouse. Etc, etc
You believe that anne frank existed because you believe that she existed, etc, etc
Odd example but correct, we cannot know with absolute certainty. But her story doesn't feature magic, so it's much easier to believe.