RE: Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?
June 20, 2016 at 12:49 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2016 at 12:54 am by robvalue.)
(June 19, 2016 at 3:38 pm)Ignorant Wrote:(June 19, 2016 at 11:12 am)robvalue Wrote: Anyone can say, "But maybe [convoluted scenario backed by no evidence]". Sure. Maybe. I can't prove it didn't happen, nor do I need to. If you're having to make stuff like this up just to make your result sound plausible, you're showing your inherent bias.
"I find people making stuff up for their own agenda to be much more plausible..." -You <= How is that essentially different than "But maybe they just made it up for their own agenda"?
I can't prove they didn't make it up, nor do I need to?
People making stuff up is not a convoluted scenario. It's incredibly simple. It requires absolutely no assumptions, other than they were prepared to make stuff up. Also, the accounts contain obviously made up stuff already. So we know they were in the habit of doing so. If someone hands you a report containing magical events, I'd have thought you would agree the most likely scenario is they made it up (or hallucinated). At best you'd simply reserve judgement. If you would by default assume the events actually happened, I wouldn't know how to proceed.
I'm not saying for sure that's what happened, but I am saying it's more likely (in my opinion) than a long whinded explanation that accounts for the 50+ year gap and tries to maintain accuracy as well. And even after that, all you have is a preacher spouting off and being executed. No one is arguing that such things went on.
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