RE: Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?
June 20, 2016 at 8:37 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2016 at 9:39 am by Ignorant.)
(June 19, 2016 at 7:52 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(June 19, 2016 at 3:39 pm)Ignorant Wrote: Based on what scientific criteria of plausibility?
I'm pretty sure there is no scientific evidence of someone rising from the dead, floating to heaven, and becoming god. [1] There is plenty of evidence of people making stuff up [2] and inaccurately recalling events. [3]
Alright, thank you for adding #3. Compare that with your original:
Mr.wizard Wrote: To me it doesn't matter if it was written down at the time of Jesus, someone making it up to further an agenda [2] is still a more plausible explanation than a man rising from the dead and floating to a magic place to become a god. [1]" (emphasis mine)
Which one is more plausible to you: a conspiracy of mostly illiterate Jews inventing a new pseudo-Jewish religion, or a shared experience of mostly illiterate Jews witnessing something they didn't really understand?
I mean, it is a normal and institutionally accepted psychiatric phenomenon that, after the death of a loved one, the bereaved will experience "seeing" their dead loved one and sometimes even speak with them. If you want to reject the interpretation of events which faith gives (i.e. a man rising from the dead), I think that this phenomenon [i.e. the natural psychosis of "seeing" a recently deceased] is your best way of accounting for the apostolic experience. Assigning intention and deceit to ancient people long gone seems a very unscientific thing to do. At least to me.