(January 31, 2015 at 9:25 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(January 31, 2015 at 9:05 pm)SteveII Wrote: Hey, chainsaw of logic, I would like to know how you explain why the early Christians believed in the actual event of the resurrection. Don't tell me that every early adherents to a religion believe in the religion. These people believed in AN ACTUAL EVENT--not a new philosophy or some written revelation.
You really are dense, aren't you?
How do you know 1) these people believed the event happened, and 2) that there was an ACTUAL EVENT?
It seems like you don't really know anything about Christianity beyond the very clever "prove it" line. Are you going to question whether John, Peter, James, and Paul ever existed? Do you know what they wrote in there widely circulated letters? Are you going to question that Christianity sprung up and spread across the Roman empire (and as far as India) within a couple of decades of Jesus--still well within the lifetime of eyewitnesses.
There is no Christianity without AN ACTUAL EVENT of the resurrection. Now faced with the evidence of people believing this event happened--I'll help you out here--you would have to claim that it was all a conspiracy. Is that what your position is? Of do you just want to keep going with the prove it line?