(June 11, 2013 at 7:13 pm)BettyG Wrote: But you are digressing from the topic of miracles. So let's get back to that. How could Jesus, if He were merely human, rise from the dead? When a Roman soldier thrust a lance through His heart, there is no way He could not be thoroughly dead. There were 500 eyewitnesses that saw Him alive after He rose. (1 Corinthians 15) There has to be something super-human to explain this, because humans cannot do this on their own power.
In the account, it's the side of Jesus that is pierced, not his heart. One good sign that it wasn't his heart is that it didn't kill him immediately.
Who were the witnesses? Why didn't any of them write down an account that survived? I could write that my cousin was abducted by aliens and 5,000 people saw it, that doesn't mean 5,000 people did; it only means I claimed they did. No superhuman explanation is needed, because tale-telling and exaggeration aren't superhuman abilities.
