Posted: Aug 05, 2017 11:19 am
Zadocfish2 wrote:Eh... still, it's hard to deny these coincidences being connected somehow. Like, it would be easier for me if I WASN'T a Christian, to the extant that a lot of this is me trying to find reasons to disbelieve that these things have significance.
But what happens is, whenever I'm feeling the most conflicted, I'll try the random verse thing and, three tries in, I'll find the same verse I quoted to myself a bit earlier, or find that a verse of the day is the same as one of the randoms I looked at. Like, think about how crazy unlikely it is for those things to happen on the same day, in the same, like, four hours. These vod things have a limited selection of verses, but the selection is easily well into the hundreds. This "verses lining up" thing has happened multiple times, often in the same day. Things that statistically improbable just cannot happen that reliably without a reason. I think it's more absurd to think of it as mere coincidence, don't you?
If I read you right, you are saying you think that the odds of 'the random verse thing' happening once are fairly high but not impossibly high. But because it has happened several times you can multiply the 'fairly high' odds together several times to get an astronomical figure. Is that what you are saying?