Deity Existence

[Vasu]

Plausible, maybe not, but still possible. The 6 days could be a metaphore; who says how long a day is for him? it could be a billion years for us.

This is so amazingly common. The parts of the Bible that aren't explainable, or outright impossible are metaphors.

As for hrae, it still required an unbelievable amount of suffering. he refused to take anything to dull the pain, though, as evidenced by refusing to take wine spiked with myrrh, and accepted the task before him, KNOWING what every whiplash was going to feel like.

You haven't answered my question. If God is omnipotent, he didn't need to have his son die in order to absolve us of our sins. He could just say: Hey, presto!

And once again, i have no disrespect towards your beliefs and i ask you to show respect towards mine.

I am asking the reason for your beliefs, You have avoided the point so far. You have avoided countering any argument of mine which is difficult to reply to. You have provided us with no reason to think that your belief is rational, and you want us to respect it.

As for practice, Juan Diego had no previous practice in that art, to my knowlege; i doubt he was very rich and had time for such amusements.

If not him, someone else stepped in and drew it. What's the big difference?