RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1)
November 26, 2014 at 10:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2014 at 10:47 pm by robvalue.)
Do you remember that kid at school who, no matter how many times you tagged him, claimed he wasn't caught?
Let's try this again:
Even if you somehow prove beyond reasonable doubt your claim, you have-
Some guy who said some impressive stuff, got crucified, declared dead, stuck in a tomb for three days then somehow got out and was alive again.
That's your jackpot. It's as much as a historian could hope to prove.
What you then have is a very interesting, but unexplained event. Just because someone did something supposedly impossible, that doesn't render true anything they say about the event, or anything else.
Say I died, and three days later I returned to life. I then tell everyone how and why this happened. Is what I say automatically true, or does it need verifying in its own right?
The Christian faith is based not on whether this event (resurrection) happened, but why it happened (assuming it did happen at all). Any claims about this are all but untestable, and as such are speculation. Hence the faith part.
Let's try this again:
Even if you somehow prove beyond reasonable doubt your claim, you have-
Some guy who said some impressive stuff, got crucified, declared dead, stuck in a tomb for three days then somehow got out and was alive again.
That's your jackpot. It's as much as a historian could hope to prove.
What you then have is a very interesting, but unexplained event. Just because someone did something supposedly impossible, that doesn't render true anything they say about the event, or anything else.
Say I died, and three days later I returned to life. I then tell everyone how and why this happened. Is what I say automatically true, or does it need verifying in its own right?
The Christian faith is based not on whether this event (resurrection) happened, but why it happened (assuming it did happen at all). Any claims about this are all but untestable, and as such are speculation. Hence the faith part.
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