DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY

[Randy Carson]

Many people believe that the Apostles knew that Jesus had not really risen from the dead and that they fabricated the accounts of his resurrection.

Who are these many people?  

Richard Carrier. Members of this forum. People like that.

And do you really think that showing that such a conspiracy is unlikely gets you any further towards proving the resurrection because:

1) No matter how unlikely such a conspiracy might be, it is still much more likely than a man returning from the dead;

Sure. But it's not the slam-dunk that mythicists and other skeptics believe it to be. This realization enables a more open-minded person to say, "Damn, that's a good argument...perhaps I should take a second look at the Christian argument."

It's a numbers game, Jenny. I don't expect that all of you can or will be saved.

However, I'm willing to bet that one or more people reading this thread will realize that their reliance on the Conspiracy Theory as a way to explain away the claim of resurrection is not as well-founded as they have thought to this point.