RE: In what way is the Resurrection the best explanation?
November 3, 2019 at 10:23 pm
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2019 at 10:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
More like decades, if the early dates and notions of oral tradition are to be believed, and nearly a century if they're not. Recall...Mark, the earliest gospel, doesn't have what would later become the contemporary christian resurrection. Just that he was somehow raised up to the right hand of god in heaven - not bodily revived, and the notion that there would be visions in future. Some females go to the tomb and a guy tells them jesus isn't there, and they run off in terror and never tell a soul...except the narrator, I guess? That's how it ended. It was missing the important bit, and while later compilers noticed it enough to forge several alternate endings and place Mark after Matthew...whomever wrote Mark clearly didn't think it was missing anything. Didn't have a virgin birth, either. You can still find those forgeries in magic books today, though.
It would take the later gospels, and Paul...OFC, to add that fun little wrinkle. Pauls comment in corinthians about the futility of christianity if jesus hadn't been raised was in direct response to the gnostic heresy. The issue was not settled, at that time (whatever that time may have been), as to which of these beliefs would become the "christian" one. Pauls argument, such as it is, is impressive in it's incoherence.
Good questions, Paul....good questions. If you weren't jamaican...why would you be wearing that hat? The history of christian belief is the history of a story's development, not an event or group of apostles. The apostles themselves are a part of that story - theologically (and numerologically, lol) but not factually important.
It would take the later gospels, and Paul...OFC, to add that fun little wrinkle. Pauls comment in corinthians about the futility of christianity if jesus hadn't been raised was in direct response to the gnostic heresy. The issue was not settled, at that time (whatever that time may have been), as to which of these beliefs would become the "christian" one. Pauls argument, such as it is, is impressive in it's incoherence.
Quote:Now if there is no resurrection, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them? 30 And as for us, why do we endanger ourselves every hour?
Good questions, Paul....good questions. If you weren't jamaican...why would you be wearing that hat? The history of christian belief is the history of a story's development, not an event or group of apostles. The apostles themselves are a part of that story - theologically (and numerologically, lol) but not factually important.
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