(November 21, 2021 at 11:28 pm)brookelauren25 Wrote: Mermaid, I found someone and completed my paper but thank you so much for offering to help me! I really appreciate it.
HappySkeptic, If you don't mind me asking, how has your training led you away from theism the past 10 years (though not initially?) Do you feel there is a disconnect between science and faith?
Rahn127, There were witnesses who saw Jesus resurrected and there are many good reasons to believe their accounts. There are more reasons than just this, but it is rational to be a Christian. Now if Jesus wasn't resurrected, none of us are saved and there was no atonement. Christianity differs from all other religions of the world in that there is a means of salvation by grace through faith, and not by works.
There are stories about a character named Yeshua written some 70 years after this characters supposed death. There are no contemporary accounts of this character written in any other historical writings of the time. There are no first hand accounts of anyone knowing the character Yeshua. There are no writings or books written by the character Yeshua. They are all 2nd or 3rd handed accounts, again written by people 70 years after this characters death.
The comic book Spiderman has detailed drawings of the city of New York and there is someone named Peter Parker who lives in New York. There is more evidence for the existence of Spiderman than there ever will be for your Jesus aka Yeshua.
So no, it is not rational to be a Christian.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result
