(March 28, 2014 at 10:39 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: We are reminded of this event every day. Not a day goes by where you don't hear His name mentioned, hear a song praising Him, drive by a church, see someone wearing a cross, or hear a verse from the Bible.
Jesus predicted His death and resurrection while He was alive. He tomb was empty on three days after His death. He appeared to His disciples. These men's lives were changed and God used them to change the world. Paul and 500 others have seen the risen Christ. The early church grew greatly even with terrible persecution speaks of the power of this Truth. Greatest evidence is the transformation of millions of lives of born again believers.
Your first paragraph is the Appeal to the Majority Fallacy. Just because a lot of people speak his name does not mean Christ exists. If a lot of people spoke the Flying Spaghetti Monster's name and quoted fictional stories about it, that would not prove its existence. There are a lot of Scientologists, and they all say alien parasites live in our heads. That sure as the stars above does not mean there really are alien parasites living in our heads.
As for your second paragraph, just because Christ's tomb was empty after his death doesn't mean he rose from the dead. Paul did not take note of Christ's supposed resurrection when he, by your claim, witnessed it because the biblical account of Christ's resurrection was written by an anonymous author many years after the resurrection supposedly took place.
Also, there sure are not any primary sources proving Christ's existence. If you ever take History in college, you will see that a primary source is something that was produced at the time. Jesus Christ never had any work published, and no scholars/historians took note of his supposed "miracle making". All you have is historian Josephus's writing about Jesus, and he is a secondary source.
