How to get reliable informations about God

[Quietus]

LeftEyeNine,

Let me help you out getting in a non-believer's shoe (objectively).

You were reading the newspapers today. In it is an article entitled: "God's son parts Red Sea". In it a person, Joe Doe, claims he parted the Red Sea and he is the son of a God. There was no pictures or videos of the event, apparently, just a drawing of the guy parting the Red Sea. Lastly, in the tradition of the Torah, the Bible and the Koran, he's writing a book he calls the New Message (latest teachings from his father).

After, reading this, at that point in time, would you believe this claim? A simple Yes or No answer would suffice.

ps. (keep in mind, you haven't witnessed anything with your own eyes).

[A.Saturnus]

LeftEyeNine, it was not my intend to offend you, please accept my apologies if I did. But I do not understand your answer. What is my "self-conflict"? I merely pointed out that a feeling you have cannot be a reliable source of information. I don´t want to belittle such a feeling, I fully understand that it is important to you and that it influences your live. Actually, I find it quite reasonable that you live by it. We all use feelings to let them guide our way in life. But nevertheless, it is not a reliable source of information about something independent from you and that feeling. That feeling may be important for you, but it provides no evidence about the world outside you.
Also, the comparison between Muhammed and Copperfield was not meant to ridicule the Prophet or your believes, though I realize that my wording was a bit hasty. The point is that there is a similarity between those two. Both - if we believe witnesses - have done things that seem to be impossible. In both cases, we can´t be sure how they did it. That their intentions were greatly different is out of the question.

Really, I am perfectly comfortable with what you believe and I don´t want to change it, although I disagree with you. For me, this is not a discussion atheist vs. believer, not even a discussion about God. It is a discussion about what is reliable information.