(September 7, 2023 at 1:27 pm)tackattack Wrote: 1. There are plenty of independent surviving texts as sources for Jesus being a living person in the past, that He was Jewish and Baptized, and that He was crucified. I believe there is no logical reason or benefit to the resurrection and tomb story. I have personal experience and what I consider reliable subjective external experiences, along with studies that indicate brain activity doesn't necessarily stop at death and that it is a uniquely human response to death to have NDE, indicating the possibility of consciousness surviving death is not 0% , IMO.
Citations needed.
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)