Maybe you think supernatural means magical like abracadabra.The OT speaks of justice, eye or an eye, while the NT speaks of not judging (let he who is without sin cast the first stone). If you don't parse do you accept both?No. I said I didn’t parse it. I am willing to bet your historical context was cherry picked.I was never a Christian so the NT was completely new to me so I tried to keep my mind open. We all have our biases of course so who knows how well they do.Interesting. You could say the same thing about yourself, right?
The only difference is I tested it and you didn’t. I have put my interpretation to the test and found that it did effect change for the positive on many levels and in many relationships. He has literally transformed me.
I guess I could be wrong about you testing your interpretation though. So feel free to share how you were able to test it. Maybe you can persuade me.
You took the theology of the Bible you liked so I don't doubt it was a positive experience. I don't care much for anyone's theology but there are some good moral lessons there I try to emulate.
The tests are historical context, Occam's Razor, and my years of experience.
Occams Razor would predict that intelligence created intelligence.
What did your years of experience prove exactly? That God doesn’t exist?
His razor would ask where that first intelligence came from.
In all my years I have never encountered anything that was, without doubt, supernatural. Unexplained mysterious, maybe, supernatural, never. Jesus performed miracles to convince his followers, even a small one would be enough for me.
Personally I think my atoms being 14 billion years ago and being dust at some point is pretty magical so to speak. So is a long chemical chains folding itself in the exact sequence necessary to produce a living organism from inanimate matter seems kind of magical so to speak.
But definitely God choosing to be born into this world to testify to truth and suffering death to reconcile justice with mercy is magical.