(May 25, 2016 at 9:26 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 12:58 pm)Godschild Wrote: You dodged my questions to you, why? Yep, Romans respected burial sites by tossing their victims into pits to rot, now that sounds respectful to me. Tell me how is it you can take a stand for a brutal Roman Empire and yet dismiss the peaceful Christians who were causing no problems. They believed in the things Jesus taught them and one was to obey the laws of the land and be good citizens, kind to all others and no one can rightly fault you. Even though they could not be rightly faulted they were killed, why, for their belief, seems as smart as you are you could figure this out.
GC
I would encourage you to listen to a recent presentation by Professor Bart Ehrman, who makes an excellent argument that Jesus was tossed into a common burial bit:
The empty tomb is not an ironclad fact of history.
He isn't someone I care to listen to. I've read one of his books and found it full of errors, erroneous comments, speculations and plenty of if this, if that and any other thing you can think of. He holds no respect from me. He has nothing to go on except to parade his nonsense to people who are gullible enough to listen. There are thousands of Christian scholars who reject him at every turn.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.