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The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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RE: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
(July 8, 2023 at 8:13 am)Paleophyte Wrote:
(June 18, 2023 at 3:08 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: So, the question becomes, is there Good Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?

No. Your own sources do suggest that a man named Jesus started the religion. That's it. Hardly impressive and they were writing decades to centuries after his crucifiction. Zero eye witless accounts.

Agree. 
One of the accounts says 500 people also rose with him and walked around Jerusalem ... yet not one secular source records anything about it. 500 zombies. 
Not one Jew (who recorded earthquakes and other significant events) says anything about an earthquake or the tearing of the temple curtain, spontaneously. 
That would have been a monumental occurrence for the Jews in Jerusalem. At the very end of Matthew it says many saw him, yet doubted anyway. 
What they were seeing was not a physical risen body. The resurrection is self-refuting. 

As a matter of fact, the literary content of the gospels are the concerns of the Jews late in the First Century
after the temple destruction, not early First Century. For decades, (if not centuries) the early members of the Christian sect were Jews ... members of "The Way" sect in Judaism. At the end of the First Century, the Jewish High Priest required the reading of the "Expulsion Curses" during every service, against the members of "The Way". They were still Jews. In his Christmas sermon in the year 400 CE, the Archbishop of Constantinople, (Saint) John Chrysostom, tells HIS congregation to stop attending the synagogue. They were still Jews. Something is very screwy about the orthodox time line here. (We have a copy of that sermon.)
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

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RE: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. - by Bucky Ball - July 8, 2023 at 10:20 am

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