(January 30, 2015 at 2:20 pm)SteveII Wrote:(January 30, 2015 at 2:07 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: The only "eyewitnesses" to the resurrection are in the Bible. Your argument is the most perfectly circular perversion of logic and reasoning I've seen on this site.
Perhaps you are struggling with the term "Bible". There are five written documents (gospels+acts). I chose to believe these accounts because they are describing actual events--not because they claim any special consideration (like inspiration) -- because they don't.
Luke says Jesus arose to heaven on the same day he left the tomb. Matthew says the apostles never saw him in Jerusalem, but met him in Galilee, 80 miles away, three days travel. No resurrection is noted. Mark, Acts and John have yet different tall tales. These cannot be factual, not from eyewitnesses.The infant narratives of Matthew and Luke are contradictory. The Gospels obviously have no truth in them, no more than the myths of Hercules or the tall tales of Appollianas of Tyanna.
Cheerful Charlie
If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
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If I saw a man beating a tied up dog, I couldn't prove it was wrong, but I'd know it was wrong.
- Attributed to Mark Twain