(December 1, 2012 at 1:39 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(December 1, 2012 at 1:30 am)The truth Wrote: You've answered it. More eye witnesses of a claim leaves us with greater evidence. Witness equals evidence I thought you knew that?
What eye witnesses accounts?
All you have are the gospels written many decades after the events they are supposed to depict, often having widely contradictory accounts. We don't know who really wrote these gospels (the names only come through late guess work of later Christians).
Then you have Paul who's only connection to Jesus was through a "vision" (hallucination?). There's a reference to I think "500" witnesses to the resurrection but that easily can be made up. No body would have bothered to travel all the way Jerusalem to check up on these supposed witnesses to see if they really saw what whatever evangelist said they did.
Even if one or two people decided to play detective and go all the way to Jerusalem to interview somebody who supposedly saw the resurrection, and then found those accounts to false, that wouldn't stop the growth of Christianity. Said detectives could be claimed to be lying or spiritually blind by the evangelist.
Your post is only opinion. If if if if.... These are all opinions. No detective went back in time to refute the five hundred witnesses so this statement is only a theory based on opinions(I get your since of humor). Please atheist show me facts that chrisitanity is false. Its proven that history shows us a empty tomb. Its proven that they never found christ body. Please people make this cite interesting. keep your if's to your self!
Paul didn't just see a vision did you read the story? The men next to him also experienced this visitation. They hurd the voice of Christ. Illusions does not allow three people at the same time to here the same exact vey words. It often effects the eyes not the ears.
