(May 23, 2016 at 10:51 am)Rhythm Wrote:(May 23, 2016 at 9:46 am)Drich Wrote: Here is a popular rebuttal concerning this very old charge first made by the Sanhedrin-snipped for brevity
If this were the case, they would have known the resurrection was a hoax. They would not therefore have been so willing to suffer and die for it.
Why oh why, would they die for a lie? We'd have to ask them...and the many others before and since that have done -precisely- that. I doubt we'd find their answers very satisfying, if we could...no more so than we find those answers satisfying in the here and now.
... all of them? All the church fathers save one died horrible deaths based on what they witnessed and taught. Not just them but their proteges as well.
What one man dies for a known lie when life is on the table if they simply refute the lie? The people being burned and brutalized by the romans are the first hand witnesses they are the generation that saw what Christ did. That is why they died the way they did. They saw the truth and was not afraid of death because they knew Christ was the real deal and all the might the roman gods could muster was contained in the power of rome.
