RE: The Historical Jesus is real and He rose from the grave
March 31, 2014 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2014 at 12:15 pm by Tonus.)
(March 30, 2014 at 9:38 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Where you there at the Big Bang?"Every single time." --Ron Jeremy
(March 31, 2014 at 8:53 am)Revelation777 Wrote: The impact of Jesus' life is much greater than that. People all over the world die for Him.If the only martyrs were Christian martyrs, there might be something to that. If only people who prayed to Yahweh claimed that their prayers were answered, there might be something to that. If the only claims of supernatural experiences were made by Christians, there might be something to that.
People all over the world report contact with aliens. Children all over the world find money under their pillows when they lose a tooth. And so on. I'm betting that you filter most of these claims through a very skeptical filter, which you conspicuously remove when it comes time to analyze biblical claims.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
