Divinity of Doubt: The God Question
Vincent Bugliosi
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 1593156294
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
he most intelligent and responsible position to take on the eternal question of God’s existence.
That we have learned that no one can pull a rabbit out of the hat when there is no rabbit in the hat? The alleged miracles of Jesus would add a tad more weight to the matter of his divinity if only he, in history, was reported to have performed any miracles. But miracles before, during, and after the time of Jesus (see the Book of Acts for miracles by Jesus’ disciples, to whom he gave the power to perform them; see also Mark 16:17–18) were a dime a dozen. I mean, even the miracle of miracles,
“father of ecclesiastical history.” Reading Eusebius, one sees his scholarship in the cautious, very spare words he employs, always acknowledging, where applicable, the absence of sufficient evidence to form a firm conclusion. Eusebius says that “the whole time of our Savior’s ministry is proved not to embrace four entire years,” that Jesus, “not very long after the commencement of his public ministry, elected the twelve, whom he called Apostles by way of eminence over the rest of his
fact that Jesus’ disciples, convinced of his divinity, dedicated their lives after he was gone to preaching his gospel in the countries of the ancient world (known today as the Middle East), even as far as Rome, and to throngs they knew would scorn and abuse them. Many of them, including Peter, Paul, and Jesus’ brother, James, who became known as James the Just, paid for their evangelism with their lives, suffering brutal execution. Why would all of them be willing to risk their lives and become
vis-à-vis non-existence of God: “I do not pretend to know what ignorant men are sure of.” While it is true, then, that I don’t believe in God, it has to be added that I don’t disbelieve in him either. I’m an agnostic, and have been since the day in my early twenties when I said to myself that if there was a heaven and if I ever went there, I wanted to take my reason with me; that there was no earthly justification to unthinkingly buy into the myth of a God and of heaven and hell. In other words,
churchgoers) for the blast. The answer was that God had put the city to the test, and it passed. “It’s like it had to happen in Oklahoma, in the Bible Belt, where people are neighbors and we do give,” a parishioner voiced the sentiment. But although the tragedy was “God’s will,” said a minister, unbelievably, God still got credit. “It was one of God’s miracles,” the minister added, “that so many people were saved.” But if people can believe it’s “God’s will” that a building is blown up, killing