Your MHORC seems to include a magical decade limit conveniently right below the timespan that most scholars put down for the development of a large portion your particular holy texts. However, there is nothing to support your time limit. In fact it has been shown over and over that mythos can develop within very short periods of time. Also, there is no reason to limit such examples to miracle max workers, that is just your special pleading trying to pigeon hole your faith as the only valid one (aka random puzzle piece).
Your MHORC seems to include your god doing parlor tricks as a pre-requisite for being a valid theology (aka random puzzle piece). Why?
Your MHORC seems to require the miracles to be recorded by someone(s) not currently part of the cult (aka random puzzle piece; which you conveniently leave out the fact that you CLEARLY have no evidence to support that your cult’s parlor tricks weren’t recorded by participating cultists). You simply want them to be that way, so therefore it must be true. It could be true, but that is very different than solid evidence that it is true. Though it is obvious that this is the source for the LDS miracles, ergo your special pleading argument...
Your requirements are not only random, but you also ignore them when you pretend that your version of Christianity fits, as you pick and choose them to make your cult sound somehow more plausible. You have no evidence to show that it wasn’t a “small clique who decided to invent (or embellish a small kernel) an instant miracle-worker”, you just wish it is so.
You conveniently avoid the reality that your miracle worker was written up to believe in all the Tanakh BS; even though you admit that the Deluge, Joshua’s day the sun stood still, the Exodus, et.al. are largely BS. You acknowledge that the miracle birthing narratives are most probably BS. “But hey pay no attention to all that, but believe the miracle max part, cuz I like that part”.
Without the earlier Yahweh tradition, there could have never been the Jesus cult tradition….never mind the various other borrowing that was done during the Jesus construction that has been shown over and over. As you use all sorts of silly excuses to dis the development of the LDS.
I don’t have a special checklist. But I’d say what would be reasonably impressive from a god, would be a holy book that it helped make sure wasn’t chalk full of BS fables (Added to original quote: like the Deluge and the day the sun stood still), nor had people latter forging changes into it. It would be more impressive if the holy texts were more definitive as to who wrote them and that they actually knew the people they were talking about. Islam has that part going for it, but little else. It would be more impressive still, if it had guidance that clearly couldn’t have possibly have been known in its day. It would also be far more reasonable if so much of the Bible didn't talk in terms of how little goat herders knew. For example, just how far was Jesus supposed to see when Satan took him up to the mountain top, when we are on a spherical planet? And if there had to be parlor tricks, then it would be even more impressive if such an event was noticed by other peoples and written down and preserved. For example, if somehow there was a 24 hour day in Canaan, then it would be fascinating to have the Egyptians writing about it in absolute panic; or maybe the Chinese writing about a night that never seemed to end. At a smaller level, just imagine if Pilate had written back to Rome about a rather odd character, that the Jewish rabbinical leaders insisted had to be executed. Since Rome did keep good records, it certainly wouldn’t have been hard to manage…for a REAL god. Instead we get stories about the purportedly worldly renowned King Solomon cuz he was so damn wise. Yet, the world never seemed to notice. Yahweh did so many massive magic tricks as part of the Exodus, in part, to make sure the Egyptians would know he is the Lord. Yet, all we know is Yahwehwho...
If this purported Christian God of the eternal torment and heaven type, really was interested in helping humans make the right choice, it has certainly done a really shitty job of it. Today, even the percentage of Christians is probably down to 28-30% of the world population. The Christian population probably peaked out around 1900, with roughly 34% of the world population. In 1800, it was only 22% (see below linky)
http://christianityinview.com/religion-statistics.html
Even if we assume that all of Europe was Christian in 1500AD, that would put Christianity only at 18% of the population. And in 1000AD Europe was only 15% of the world population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population_estimates#By_world_region
So for a god that purported exists and cares about his little ant farm, he sure never did a good job getting the word out...
