Thoughts on Atheism and Apologetics

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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.

Pretty much all of the disciples seem to have had doubts about Jesus' resurrection until they saw him with their own eyes. It's curious because --according to the story-- Jesus had not only resurrected two people himself (thus showing it was possible) but he told his disciples that he would return just days after his death.

After three years of watching him perform miracles, and giving talks which left people awestruck, and making predictions that came true, they nonetheless seemed to think that the ride was over when Jesus was killed... even though he had predicted that as well! As with the old testament, we get a character who can't seem to impress people in spite of actions that should have had them all at his feet. And his own closest followers are just as unimpressed! Thomas's petulant claim that he wouldn't accept it until he could put his fingers in Jesus' wounds makes for a nice moral fable, but strikes me as shocking for a guy who either saw or heard of the things that Jesus did and said.