(August 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Mainly he says that skeptics have to answer these questions to prove jesus didnt rise from the dead. Why did christianity emerge so rapidly, with such power?
Same way Harry Potter boomed. It makes a good story, considering the times it rose in.
(August 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: No other band of messianic followers in that era claimed a leader rose from the dead-why did this group do so?
Jesus wasn't the first dying/rising God. He was just the first in a monotheistic tradition, as far as I know. There were other messianic figures around that time.
(August 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Jews never worshipped one man as god why did they start now?
Jews still don't worship any man as God. A sect of apocalyptic Judaism latched onto the messiah idea and turned passages from the Old Testament around so the messiah was no longer a warrior but a suffering figure.
(August 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: Jews did not believe in divine men or resurrections, what changed their worldview overnight?
They believed in men who touched the divine. Also, Jesus didn't appear as a fully formed concept for some time.
(August 5, 2011 at 12:30 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: How do u account dor hundred of eyewitness who saw jesus, lived for decades and gave their lives for that belief?
His source for these eyewitnesses?
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