RE: In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation?
October 30, 2019 at 3:19 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2019 at 3:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
They still knew bullshit when they heard it, that doesn't take any book learnin lol. We can say that people were less literate.....but there are more literate christians alive today than dead illiterate ones.
It's never been the case that christians or anyone else weren't aware of how much bs their story is riddled with. That's what all that schism and reformation and buddy jesus and simply jesus and just love and relationships with god and whatever other taglines they come up with next are all about.
The earliest mention of christians is very literally a pagan roman official calling them superstitious idiots. Christianity's founding documents are (allegedly) one soap box nutball taking the other soap box nutballs to task for getting everything wrong.
The explanation for christian beliefs in past is remarkably similar to their explanation today. The earlist christians became christian just like Vicki or Snow did..by having it inflicted upon them from a position of authority or leverage.
The notion that a missing body, or a resurrection (or even illiteracy), is an explanation for those beliefs is as unserious an exploration of the subject as one could imagine. Christ actually being resurrected wouldn't have lead to christian beliefs, and we know this. We know this by reference to the actual history of the religion but we can know this conceptually without that -by reference to their own beliefs.
In magic book, people who saw miracles happen in front of their faces....in the ot and the nt..didn't fall to their knees. That wasn't enough to create a belief in them that would require an explanation. As ever, gods ability to fail is about as omni as it gets. The actual existence of the christian god and his actually doing miracles would have little to nothing to tell us about the reasons christians held or hold the beliefs they do then or now. This is due to the fact that the subject of christain belief..is people, not gods, regardless of whether or not there are gods.
It's never been the case that christians or anyone else weren't aware of how much bs their story is riddled with. That's what all that schism and reformation and buddy jesus and simply jesus and just love and relationships with god and whatever other taglines they come up with next are all about.
The earliest mention of christians is very literally a pagan roman official calling them superstitious idiots. Christianity's founding documents are (allegedly) one soap box nutball taking the other soap box nutballs to task for getting everything wrong.
The explanation for christian beliefs in past is remarkably similar to their explanation today. The earlist christians became christian just like Vicki or Snow did..by having it inflicted upon them from a position of authority or leverage.
The notion that a missing body, or a resurrection (or even illiteracy), is an explanation for those beliefs is as unserious an exploration of the subject as one could imagine. Christ actually being resurrected wouldn't have lead to christian beliefs, and we know this. We know this by reference to the actual history of the religion but we can know this conceptually without that -by reference to their own beliefs.
In magic book, people who saw miracles happen in front of their faces....in the ot and the nt..didn't fall to their knees. That wasn't enough to create a belief in them that would require an explanation. As ever, gods ability to fail is about as omni as it gets. The actual existence of the christian god and his actually doing miracles would have little to nothing to tell us about the reasons christians held or hold the beliefs they do then or now. This is due to the fact that the subject of christain belief..is people, not gods, regardless of whether or not there are gods.
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