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

[Drich]

Ascension to the afterlife is not an invention of Christianity. It's version only popularized a new version of hero worship.

It could have very easily stemmed in antiquity even prior to written religions, when someone saw someone dying in cold weather, confusing body heat and or breath rising as the "spirit" leaving the body.

The fantastic claim of the story of his death is merely that. Science now knows to actually torture and kill someone like the bible depicts and have them survive is absurd. Funny how no human ever survives a decapitation. If one were to have all the blood drained out of their body, as what the REAL intent of the torture was in reality back then, nobody survives that.

But it still would not matter because even if one could prove a man named Jesus did exist, it would merely mean a human managed to start a new religion and convince others to follow him. It would not make the Christian God real anymore than the hero stories of the ancient Egyptian were true.

Theologians are apologists, not objective historians or objective anthropologists. They are salesmen.

lol, what are you doing now if not selling a position? If being a salesman is a bad thing... then count yourself among them.

There is absolutely NO record of independent conformation of his existence during the the time the bible claims he existed. Josephus was after the fact and all the NT was also hearsay also written way after the alleged time the bible claims.

BS.
When a document does indeed independently confirms Christ, it is considered to be a religious document.