The "outsider test of faith" (apply your reasons for rejecting Thor to Christianity) backfires for informed Christians because the evidence for Christianity specifically doesn't work for pagan deities.
Responding to the street epistemology version of argument 1
Winger lists 10 categories of evidence that work for Christianity but not for Thor/paganism: (1) Cosmological arguments (Kalam) — work for monotheism, not pagan deities; (2) Teleological arguments from design — biology and physics point to a Creator; (3) Moral arguments — God as grounding for objective morality (Thor fails the Euthyphro dilemma, God passes it); (4) Argument from beauty; (5) Argument from free will; (6) Historical evidence for the resurrection; (7) Biblical prophecy — compared to Islamic prophecy (Muhammad's "talking dishes"), biblical prophecy passes critical scrutiny; (8) Personal experience; (9) Evidence for one religion is evidence against competing claims. Resources referenced: William Lane Craig moral argument playlist, Luke Barnes on fine-tuning, Evidence for the Bible series.
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