How to convert Christians to atheists in 30 seconds (ironically, using bible)

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I don't know why resurrection is considered such a big deal anyway. In the first book he created everything ever. Standing a dead Jew back up is hardly comparable.

Hope your surgery is going well and that it helps!

Here is why the resurrection is a big deal:

1) It is a testimony (not proof) that Jesus is who he said he is (i.e. God). He predicted that he would be killed and then rise on the third day, and that this is what the Father sent him to do. The resurrection is a confirmation of that prediction, and it lends credence to the other promises he makes.

Are you referring to Luke 24:46?

Jesus claimed another fulfillment of nonprophecy in Luke 24:46. Speaking to his disciples on the night of his alleged resurrection, he said, "Thus it is written and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day." That the resurrection of Christ on the third day was prophesied in the scriptures was claimed also by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4: "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures." In two different places, then, New Testament writers claimed that the resurrection of the Messiah on the third day had been predicted in the scriptures. Try as they may, however, bibliolaters cannot produce an Old Testament passage that made this alleged third-day prediction. It simply doesn't exist.

http://infidels.org/library/modern/farre...phecy.html

Doesn't seem like much of a prophecy. Sounds more like a simple legend recorded two places after the fact.