(July 8, 2013 at 11:38 pm)Consilius Wrote: Both Jews and Christians believe there was an empty tomb.I would beg to differ.
As for the rest of your answer, it is all made with a presupposition that everything in the bible is historical fact. Given the inconsistencies of even the synoptic accounts of christ's life, and the absolute absence of any corroborating contemporary accounts of any of the other miraculous events surrounding the crucifixion and resurrection we can conclude that the historicity of such an event is mighty suspect. (i.e. the tearing of the veil in the temple, the dead walking witnessed by many, a solar eclipse lasting as long as the gospels record, etc.)
At least some of these things would have been noticed by somebody and recorded somewhere other than some faith documents without clear authorship written decades after the fact and canonized by councils with clear political motivations.
But you believe what you want, dude.
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret is as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco