Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.

[Drich]

Actually I did answer you at length post 25:
http://atheistforums.org/thread-46883-page-3.html

You answered: If you want to debate me contact the mods.

Now you demand I simply answer you, I ask that you pick one side of the road to drive on and stay there please... Oh, and when you get baptized wear underwear or even bring a swim suit to wear underneath. the gown the give you doesn't leave much to the imagination.

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I reread that post and nowhere do you answer the question as to why the so-called witnesses of the New Testament (most of whom are anonymous, such as the supposed '500 brethren') are to believed over the thousands of known witnesses alive now who claim that they have been physically abducted by aliens.  As for the so-called 500 brethren, it's very strange that none of them wrote any accounts of their so-called experiences!  Still, I doubt very much that even you, Drich, accept the so-called Miracle of the Sun were 70,000 saw the Sun "miraculously" move from one quadrant of the sky to another before plunging to the Earth.  So, even if the historicity of the so-called 500 is accepted, I can point to other examples from history of mass hallucinations which you no doubt reject, also.

And you still don't get it...

Let me put it to you in your terms.

What if I was abducted and tested on, and told you that if you want proof all you need do is A,B,C and the aliens would 123 you.

Would seeking and obtaining proof for yourself be enough?

That sport is what God offers everyone from then till now. That is why the words of the 500 are more valid. because their words were not ment to convert but to tell people who God is and where to find them for themselves.

Again the bible is not a historical document that simply tells of what things were, but an active map as to where to find God.