(November 22, 2021 at 2:57 pm)brookelauren25 Wrote: Ranjr, What unsubstantiated claim am I making? That there were eyewitnesses to the resurrection of Jesus?
I don't take personal offense to ways of thinking that differ from my own. I am a former agnostic. I became a Christian at 31 years of age - so most of my life I was an unbeliever. It's not like this way of thinking is completely foreign to me - I understand unbelief.
People are not attacking you, but your unfounded claims. If you are not prepared to have your presuppositional apologetics challenged, stay out of the kitchen
We have no idea if there were witnesses at Jesus' crucifixion. There are no first person accounts. Biblical accounts of events are not usually accepted as history. Nor are second hand (at least) accounts of writers such as Flavius Josephus.
Oh, agnosticism is about belief. The word comes from the Greek 'gnosis' a=not/without gnosis=knowledge.
Although the term is usually used in a religious context, in fact it may be used in any area. That means we are all agnostic, probably about far more things than not.
An atheist is only a person who does not believe in god(s) period. When you were an agnostic, you either believed in god or you did not. There is no third option.
One may be an agnostic atheist as I am, or an agnostic theist.
Agnostic atheism is a philosophical position that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. Agnostic atheists are atheistic because they do not hold a belief in the existence of any deity, and are agnostic because they claim that the existence of a deity is either unknowable in principle or currently unknown in fact.
The agnostic atheist may be contrasted with the agnostic theist, who believes that one or more deities exist but claims that the existence or nonexistence of such is unknown or cannot be known.[1][2][3]
Agnostic atheism - Wikipedia
