(August 16, 2013 at 3:18 am)FallentoReason Wrote: For those of you who believe that miracles are indistinguishable from natural processes (i.e. miracles can be *explained* naturally) I have a question for you:
What's the explanation of Jesus' resurrection?
A) He never died, but instead made it seem like he did, then "rose" again in 48 hours.
B) He actually died and *stayed* that way, but intellectual dissonance got the best of the disciples (i.e. there's an apparent contradiction in a pair of details, so the one that gets neglected is the one that would be the defeater of the belief the person wants to keep. This means that people might have been claiming to be Jesus and even though they didn't look like Jesus, the disciples brushed that detail aside and believed they really *were* the true Jesus because the disciples believed Jesus was definitely going to be resurrected.)
Seeing as though men don't come back from the grave (especially after the most brutal execution method of the era), what's the partial truth of this naturally explainable miracle? That he died or that he didn't?
Are we going to use the Bible as the evidence, since there is no other place to gather info, or is this a let's just make stuff up type of deal.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
