RE: Jesus is God
June 24, 2011 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2011 at 7:45 pm by Parture.)
(June 24, 2011 at 7:38 pm)DaveD Wrote: No it doesn't. It's all hearsay, and hearsay is inadmissible in any civilised court of law.
Historians can glean certain facts from these historical documents as other historical documents. One of those facts is that the disciples truly believed they had seen Jesus alive from the dead in various group settings for which there is no naturalistic explanation.
The lawyer who won 400 cases in a row in the Guiness Book of Records said this evidence is the best case he has ever seen.
The most famous lawyer of the 19th century Simon Greenleaf (who produced more jurisprudence than all the lawyers in Europe combined) said,
"This ancient document, the Scripture, has come from the proper repository, that is, it is has been in the hands of the persons of the Church for 2000 years almost and it bears on its face no evident marks of forgery, and therefore the law presumes it to be genuine, and those who would presume otherwise upon them devolves the responsibility of proving it to be false. We don't have to prove it to be true. They have to prove it to be false. That's what the law says."
