RE: In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation?
September 18, 2019 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2019 at 6:37 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 18, 2019 at 11:14 am)Grandizer Wrote: What do you mean by the originals exactly? Are you including Matthew, Luke, and John as well? Because I could argue that these three also reached for information out in the darkness.
Yes, the Gospels; for example, we are told that an angel appeared to Mary telling her Jesus had resurrected, and then she went and told the disciples "Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them" (ESV, Luke 24:10). In another gospel we are told that the resurrected Jesus appeared to the disciples later on "Afterwards [Jesus] appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen." (ESV, Mark 16:14). And in the gospel of John the book concludes, after recounting that Jesus appeared to the disciples that "[url=http://biblehub.com/john/21-24.htm][/url]This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true" (ESV, John 21:24).
None of these gospels appear to be reaching out into the darkness for information. Whether they are telling the truth or not, they are grounding their claims on testimony.
In contrast, does your explanation that Joseph of Arimethea moved Jesus' body in the night have any corroboration of the sort? No, it couldn't have, since by your own account Joseph decided to keep quiet and not tell anyone. Meaning that even if he did do it there is no way for anyone, even you, to know. The gospels can base their claim on hearsay at the very least.
