Why do you believe?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

A small amount of years? wtf? That was like close to 400 years!
And again, the conversion of Paul, these "witnesses" you keep naming. It could easily be legend.

When I mean "took the entire roman empire in only a small amount of years!" I was referring to the religions of Rome. Christanity swept threw Rome like a wild fire in the first one hundred years with the gosple of Christ. Any historian can tell you that.

You say the witnesses can easily be legend but they can easily be real. Where's your proof for such a statements. atheist make statements like "there was no witnesses of Christ resurrection" but then when we give you witnesses you say there legend. You cant choose history. If they are witnesses they are witnesses. You might dont cnoose to believe it but its still history. The historical facts are the written new testament of the bible. And the church father's of the late and early second century.

These supposed eye witnesses accounts haven't been confirmed as history anymore than the accounts of aliens crashing landing in Roswell in 1947.

And the supposed rapid growth of Christianity, assuming that were true, doesn't prove anything about the resurrection. Christian had just the right the combination of religious rules and promises to make it a success in the course of 400 years. Gentiles were already joining judaism in large numbers before Christianity rose. The only thing stopping a significant conversion to judaism was all of its strict laws such as dietary laws. When Christianity came around with what the gentiles liked about judaism but without those pesky rules, it sealed itself as a success in the long run. This doesn't prove its divinity anymore than the success of the iPhone proves Steve Jobs was God.