(May 30, 2023 at 11:28 am)Vicki Q Wrote: It's pretty much universally agreed that Paul was writing in the mid 50s, so some of the dating here is...daring. Anyone who thinks that 25 years after the event is an issue should watch an episode of Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains (example).
(May 29, 2023 at 5:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: What evidence, exactly?
Boru
Thank you for asking.
Everyone has their own life, and so it's going to vary from person to person. People have had experiences that give more than enough evidence for them. My point to KerimF was that faith can be based on evidence (often in part), so he doesn't need evidence-free faith. The disciples certainly had enough first hand knowledge to make evidence-free faith impossible.
For me, it would be a mixture of personal evidence, experiences of those close to me, and the yet-to-be-solved question of how Christianity got going with the set of beliefs it did.
The return of God to Israel was supposed to be this great event, announcing the start of the Kingdom of God, the end of death, and forgiveness for God's people. Why did a group of Jews suddenly think that the death of their leader was all that? Why did they commit the rest of their now inevitably shorter and nastier lives to telling people about it?
Very eloquent, but not what I asked you. I’ll try again:
What evidence, exactly?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
