(October 30, 2015 at 8:00 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(October 30, 2015 at 7:51 am)robvalue Wrote: It is way more likely they were mistaken, or just plain made it up. People get mistaken all the time. They also make things up all the time.
It was also written by non-eye witnesses 30 years after the event, so they didn't see anything. They heard rumours.
Why? Do you have any support for your assertions here?
It's a much more likely explanation than that they actually saw Jesus rise from the dead, appear to them as some form of spiritual being, and then ascend to heaven. It's also backed up by heaps of evidence from modern days that people are all too willing to believe things without evidence.