Question for Christians/Muslims etc.

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Actually I think there is good reason to believe in the resurrection (which there is no point going into).

Really? You won't go into it? Why on earth not? As a Christian you have an obligation to bear witness to everyone,not just those of like mind. If you have evidence of the existence and resurrection of Jesus it's your duty to share it. You might be saving an atheist soul.

Declining to explain implies you're lying,don't think any such thing,or know full well we will only laugh at you. The ridicule would probably come from people with the capacity for independent thought and critical thinking.

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Where the hell do you get off telling a Christian what he/ shoe is/ is not obligated or duty bound to do! Time and time again people get banned on here for "preaching" as per the rules, yet you want him to "bear witness". Hold on I need to recalibrate my irony meter for a whole bunch of WTH.

Anyways, The canonization of the books of the bible weren't to choose which gospels were true or untrue, it was to choose which one's were divinely relevant to the religion. Josephus, Tacitus, the Talmud, Pliny the younger, Suetonius, Mara Bar-Serapion, Julius Africanus, Lucian of Samosata, The Toledot Yeshu , Quran, etc. all aside from the bible accept the life of Jesus. They may have different subjective opinions of who he was and what he did, but all accept that Jesus was a man. Yes, they were not eye-witness accounts. Yes, it makes more sense that his body was stolen.

"The denial of that existence seems never to have occurred even to the bitterest gentile or Jewish opponents of nascent Christianity" (Durant, The Story of Civilization, vol. 3, p. 555). People can't agree on what happened to JFK, and that was on video. Hisory where not backed by historical acheological evidence is subjective and written by the victors. He wasn't a famous carpenter, or ruler. He was a crucified, religious minority leader. If you're looking for a cup he made, or a chair he crafted or some idol facade of him on a statue, go watch Indiana Jones and continue to live in your denial.

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People at the time saw Him, so it does say more than no one seeing Him come out of the grave.

Unfuckingbelievable.

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People have seen Elvis, too.

Are you denying that Elvis did exist and that he was a singer with some talent? Some atheists treat Jesus that way.