Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach

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Here is the big problem, and one of the reasons you're not being taken seriously Randy:

You assume that there is any truth in the bible, beyond what can be independently verified. I don't, nor do most others here. It's a story book, very very loosely based on reality and history. A little bit of accuracy here and there is not license to just assume whatever else you want is also true; not if you wish to maintain any integrity.

If I started asking you why Buffy the Vampire Slayer would keep fighting vampires if there was no Hellmouth in reality, you would laugh in my face, and rightly so. What you're failing to grasp is that your questions about the motivations of characters we have no reason to believe actually existed are just as ridiculous.