(March 6, 2014 at 7:45 pm)discipulus Wrote:
How about this for a debate topic:
"Has God raised Jesus from the dead?"
That has more assumptions than grains of sand on a beach.
The first is that such a being as "God" exists. Since he has never shown himself or done anything godly the evidence is that he doesn't exist.
The second is that the Jesus character as depicted in the New Testament existed. There's no independent unbiased evidence that such a person existed and did the things he supposedly did. The story is on a par with fictional characters such as Tarzan.
The third is that since there's no evidence that the "Jesus" character existed there's no reason to believe that a non-existent "God" character raised a fictional "Jesus" character from the dead. Such things don't happen in real life. But they do happen all the time in fiction with imaginary characters.
Even Paul, the guy who created the Jesus character, said that if people aren't raised from the dead that his story was pure BS. He presented no real evidence to support his fairy tale. Instead he simply claimed that a crowd of imaginary people had witnessed it.
