(August 1, 2014 at 1:03 am)MPCADF Wrote: I am glad none of us can find a naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles.Ok, here's a very, very, very naturalistic explanation to account for the eyewitness testimony of the apostles: fiction.
You know, I've "recently" read a book... a series of books, actually, but oh well... the book is written under the POV of several of the characters, which gives a lot of different perspectives - each chapter is actually written by a different character and then bound into a book
In these books, we can find eyewitness testimony by a 14 year old girl accounting for the existence of dragons! Why would she lie?
Also, in the same book, there is eyewitness testimony of whitewalkers, humanoid zombie-like creatures that exist in the cold cold places of the planet.
In that book, it is said, although never testified, that the Lannisters shit gold. Oh, right... it was disproved when Tyrion does that thing to Tywin, at the end of book 3 - A storm of Swords. Anyway, still plausible.
If I was to assume, like you do with your book, that this book portrayed actual event that happened in the past, what would you think about me and my mental sanity?
Apply the same for any book, like, for instance, oh... I don't know... Torah, Qur'an, Vedas, Kama Sutra (or like someone once said: Karma Sutra
).(August 1, 2014 at 1:03 am)MPCADF Wrote: The lawyer in the Guinness World Records who won 400 cases in a row said the best evidential case he has ever seen was for the life, death, burial, resurrection and deity of Jesus. So in terms of evidence, God has provided the best proof we could ever reasonably ask for.
In fact, you nor I can even come up with better evidence for Jesus being God. That's powerful.
That's pitiful.
If the best evidence you have for the ultimate being's existence is unverifiable and oft contradictory eyewitness accounts, then that being sure does seem like it doesn't exist.
I'm not saying there wasn't a man called Jesus or whatever, but the stories about him sure do sound fictitious.
