(May 25, 2016 at 8:17 pm)IATIA Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 8:00 pm)AAA Wrote: One of the main reasons is that Jesus's resurrection is the only acceptable explanation for the explosion of the early Christian church as many people were reported to have seen him alive afterword.
I can probably find hundreds if not thousands of people that have seen Elvis. Does that mean Elvis is the second christ?
Compare and contrast:
The thousands of witnesses who saw the resurrected Elvis;
The hundreds of witnesses who saw the resurrected John Stonehouse (MP who famously faked his suicide and turned up in Australia years later);
The thousands of witnesses who saw the resurrected Gandalf.
Which of these most closely fits the Jesus story?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
