“The problem with trying to prove to you that YHWH is real is that you don't have faith in anything.”
Wow, that’s sweeping. I don’t think that’s true, though, there are plenty of things that I believe but i lack objective evidence to convince another.
I haven’t had my wife under surveillance for the last 40 years but i believe that she’s been faithful to me this whole time.
“If I told you of my personal experiences, you would just discredit me as a liar and have no faith in what I said.”
Doesn’t really matter. All you have is testimony, which is not convincing evidence to me. I’ve found many a Christain telling lies to try to convince me of God’s existence. Most Chick Tracts for instance.
“But just for kicks and giggles:
One of my best friends was healed of HIV. Yes, I said healed. He had it, prayed, and no longer has it.”
I would need to see the lab results of the positive test and the negative test. I’d need some reason to think that it wasn’t a false positive. And I would still need some reason to believe god was involved. Maybe your nameless friend is just a mutant?
“I was personally healed recently. I tore my rotator cuff and God restored it - INSTANTLY”
Then why did he let you tear it in the first place?
And you have the time-stamped x-rays to show it was solid, torn, then solid, in that order?
“I watched with my own eyes as God removed a tumor the size of a grapefruit from a woman's neck... "Physically"”
You have another anecdote, whee. Of a nameless woman. Did a doctor diagnose it as a tumor? Did a doctor find her clear of the tumorous mass?
“But again, those don't count because you don't believe it.”
No, they don’t count because i want something that tells ME that god has taken action on Earth, not just that you believe it did. I can get that from a Muslim, a Shinto, a Hindu….
“They happened, but they don't "prove" anything because you say so.”
Well, they don’t prove anything to ME because you’re just telling me stories. Stories without verifiable details.
Say that I were to tell YOU that I saw the President of the Mormon CHurch handle one of Smith’s golden plates, and they’re real, and that proves the Book of Mormon, but I don’t have those plates, they were hidden away. You’d be unconvinced, right? Because YOU haven’t seen the plates, you didn’t see Joseph Smith perform any miracles, you haven’t seen a more recent miracle proving the Mormon’s right….
Same-same.
“Matthew 12:39″
Well, yes, if i attend someone’s funeral and am convinced of their death, and they show up later, I will be very impressed.
However someone TELLING me a dead guy got up later is not that compelling.