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My parents don't consider me a real Christian, somehow I cope. ;-)
Not only do I believe the Elijah experiment can be replicated, I believe it is being replicated today along with many other miracles. Just hidden for most people, because in Christianity, God reveals the truth to those who he chooses (poor/humble/righteous people) and keeps other people (rich/wicked/prideful) blind. So God might raise someone from the dead but in a way that could not be publicly verified, lest the rich proud people who think they're so smart find out the truth.
I fail to see how a supernatural revelation could prove no (organized) religion is correct, short of God saying "no religion is correct", which would then cause me to create my own organized religion...
But Christianity could surely be disproved in many different ways. For one, aliens or real sentient AI would disprove Christianity AFA I'm concerned. I'm not yet 30, so maybe I'll discover it in my lifetime.
If Christianity were disproved, that would leave Buddhism and Deism as the only viable religions left IMH(current)O. And Deism is only necessary in so far as I find the evidence for abiogenesis and humans-created-by-evolution lacking.
So except miracles and creation, I could be an atheist.
Now I'm wondering which of those categories I fit in to. They all sound a tad appealing. :)
If you are familiar with Christianity, all humans fall into the wicked and prideful categories.
The fact that you are on the internet suggests you additionally fall into the rich one too.
Now whether God sovereignly chooses his people (calvinism), or humans can also choose e.g. by humbling themselves (arianism) is an open question.
Edit to add: Just because God hasn't revealed the truth to someone today, doesn't mean he won't do it tomorrow or even (though this is heresy) after death.
So I certainly don't consider all non-Christians to be hopeless, after all I was a non-Christian too, once. And I also don't consider all who call themselves Chrstian to be chosen.
I was sincere Christian right up until I realised the religion could be better explained by tribal signalling than magic.
You just finished saying:
A basic doctrine of Christianity is that poor, humble and righteous people are wicked and prideful too.
Only Jesus is perfect.
Some strains believe God choses for reasons we can't grasp and then those people become more humble and less prideful, etc.
Others believe that if you do your best to be humble and righteous eventually God will reveal himself (though no guarantee that it will happen before your last minute on earth).
I don't know which of the two it is, or perhaps it is something else entirely.