RE: In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation?
September 17, 2019 at 10:13 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2019 at 10:14 am by Anomalocaris.)
(September 17, 2019 at 9:31 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 17, 2019 at 9:05 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I'm over here giggling at the idea of a naturalistic explanation for an explicitly supernatural event, in a fictional narrative.
Category failure. The natural explanation is that it's in the story as an important detail to the plot, lol.
But Jesus' missing corpse is not 'an explicitly supernatural event'. Bodies go missing for all sorts of reasons. Why is being attempted is a possible explanation as to how an explicitly natural event might be perceived by a gaggle of superstitious, semi-literate religious fanatics to have been supernatural. Happens a lot.
Boru
It is just as naturalistic, and in my opinion likely to be much closer to more of the truth, to say somewhere along its descent some of this gaggle of superstitious , semi-literate religious fanatics knew, through contact and trial and error, what would impress their fellow superstitious, semi-literate fanatics, and manufactured bullshit to suit the purpose.