(December 24, 2013 at 4:05 am)savedwheat Wrote: Because I can't find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.
"Claimed" eyewitness testimony or they are just characters in a novel...Characters in novels can do anything the author's imagination puts to them.
Do you accept the claimed "eyewitness" testimony of Joseph Smith viz his visitation from the angel Moroni? Do you accept the claimed "eyewitness" testimony of Mohamed riding his horse thingy to Jerusalem and back in a single night? Do you accept those "eyewitnesses" who saw Vespasian cure the blind RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM?!?!?! Sounds a bit Jesus-like doesn't it? But it wasn't Jesus, it was Vespasian, Roman Emperor.
Or, more likely, do you invoke the special pleading fallacy that those cases are somehow different and your particular ridiculous claims are "special"?
A far more likely explanation is the stories in the NT are nothing more than historical fiction. Real places, some real people and a whole lotta nonsense for the rest.
