RE: In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation?
September 18, 2019 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2019 at 4:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
-And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
Christian orthodoxy -also- declared what would be the gospel. In any case, I'm not arguing for mythicism at all, the resurrection is not taken to be a historic detail. It is known to be myth, and myths don't need events to explain belief in them. It wasn't actually on account of seeing a lightning bolt that anyone believed in zues, either.
If you dive into the whys of the beliefs and stories accepted, when you can find an answer, it's usually political, and usually to do with competing factions in roman politics. This religion built support as a proxy by offering people an escape from death when death was all around them. That's why they came to believe, and declare other beliefs heresy. The same way that anyone comes to believe absolutely anything. If christ didn't escape death, neither would they. If christ didn't have a body, his sacrifice wouldn't be effective. They had beliefs about sympathetic magic that included a rider. Those things had to be true for the magic to be true.
Think about modern day creationists. Do they believe on account of evidence or an event...however misconstrued, or because they need to believe creationism for their religion to be true?
Christian orthodoxy -also- declared what would be the gospel. In any case, I'm not arguing for mythicism at all, the resurrection is not taken to be a historic detail. It is known to be myth, and myths don't need events to explain belief in them. It wasn't actually on account of seeing a lightning bolt that anyone believed in zues, either.
If you dive into the whys of the beliefs and stories accepted, when you can find an answer, it's usually political, and usually to do with competing factions in roman politics. This religion built support as a proxy by offering people an escape from death when death was all around them. That's why they came to believe, and declare other beliefs heresy. The same way that anyone comes to believe absolutely anything. If christ didn't escape death, neither would they. If christ didn't have a body, his sacrifice wouldn't be effective. They had beliefs about sympathetic magic that included a rider. Those things had to be true for the magic to be true.
Think about modern day creationists. Do they believe on account of evidence or an event...however misconstrued, or because they need to believe creationism for their religion to be true?
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