Quote Originally Posted by cherry kool aid
and i could argue that those who could testify on the validity of the word and seen it firsthand are simply choosing to see it, selectively viewing the world as it were, and using their filtered reality to justify the words the want to be true, and denying that which contridicts the very core of their beliefs.
First, you can argue whatever you wish. So can I. So can someone else.
All those arguments combined do NOT change the truth from being exactly what it is. It stands without our help or arguments.

Second, your arguments up to this point were more convincing...this one is kinda weak. Anyone can excuse anything someone else has ACTUALY experienced as a figment of their imagination or chalk it up to the person choosing to see it. Nonetheless, you still have the TESTIMONY of the person who ACTUALY experienced it. Also, in the case of Chrsitianity and Biblical principles there are MANY changed lives with witness's of that change.