Thoughts on Atheism and Apologetics

[Jenny A]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the jesus claim is extraordinary.

A guy named Thomas thought the same way. Right up until the moment that he put his fingers into the nail wounds in Jesus' hands.

Thomas had the right idea but he wasn't nearly skeptical enough. As proof for Thomas that Jesus was alive touching him and seeing him up close was great since Thomas knew him well. But it was not by any means proof that Jesus had ever actually been dead nail holes or no nail holes.

The problem for us is that we don't have what Thomas is said to have had, the opportunity to see and test for ourselves. What we have is a hearsay account written decades after the event. We lack evidence that Thomas saw what The Gospel of John claims he saw.